https://spacewatch.global/tag/astrolab/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:50:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/astrolab/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/10/open-lunar-foundation-establishes-lunar-ledger-to-bring-cooperation-and-transparency-to-the-moon/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=68267 The Open Lunar Foundation has launched the Lunar Ledger, a new open-access database of global lunar activities and objects. The Ledger provides a single, shared platform where governments, companies, and researchers can publish and cross-reference mission information . ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/11/interstellar-lab-partners-astrolab-to-grow-lunar-flowers/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:00:42 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52453 Interstellar Lab, a biotech startup that develops, builds, and operates biofarming solutions on Earth and in Space, has announced its collaboration with Astrolab on a lunar mission named LITTLE PRINCE. The Mission aims to grow flowers on the Moon in transparent controlled-environment plant pods and capture data and pictures of this first step towards making any life multi-planetary. The company partnered with Astrolab to install the payloads on the lunar surface with the FLEX (Flexible Logistics and Exploration) rover. As a result, the LITTLE PRINCE Mission will be part of Astrolab’s Mission 1.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/11/astrolab-announce-eight-partners-for-its-moon-mission/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52421 Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) has announced that it has reached an agreement with eight enterprise customers to use its Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover to deploy the customers’ payloads on Astrolab’s upcoming mission to the Moon - Mission 1. Five customers are releasing details of their payloads today: Argo Space, Astroport, Avalon Space, Interstellar Lab, and LifeShip. Three more customers are contracted with Astrolab but intend to release details of their payloads at a future date, closer to launch. Collectively, Astrolab values the eight contracts at more than $160 million.]]>