Mission Space and Puli Space Sign MOU to Explore Lunar Surface Environmental Monitoring Mission

Mission Space and Puli Space Technologies announced a Memorandum of Understanding on July 22 to explore joint lunar surface missions combining Puli Space's rover platform with Mission Space's environmental monitoring instruments. The companies said the agreement follows Mission Space's recent selection by NASA under an Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity to advance its lunar dust and surface-charging monitoring instrument with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Under the MOU, the companies intend to evaluate a mission concept in which Puli Space's rover provides mobility, surface access, terrain context, telemetry, and mission operations support. Mission Space instruments would collect localized measurements of the lunar environment along rover traverses and at mission-relevant locations. The companies will also explore a joint commercial lunar surface data product combining environmental measurements with rover context, location, traverse, and surface operations data. Mission Space CEO Mary Glaz said the company is focused on turning lunar environmental measurements into an operational data layer for the Moon. She said a rover-based mission allows measurement of how the local environment changes across terrain, illumination conditions, rover activity, and selected surface locations. Puli Space CEO Tibor Pacher said the collaboration is a natural next step pairing rover mobility with environmental measurements, adding that future lunar infrastructure will need not only measurements but maps.