Concept art of astronauts driving Lunar Outpost's Pegasus rover on the surface of the moon.
(Image credit: Lunar Outpost)
Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. It's right there in their name.The Colorado-based company has already built a sleek lunar rover named Eagle and sent a robotic mini-rover to the moon on a commercial lunar lander. There's a Lego kit inspired by both of them. This month, the company announced that it has secured $30 million in funding to help it develop a new, smaller rover named Pegasus.Lunar Outpost aims to develop a whole ecosystem of infrastructure on the moon, as well as the robots that will build it."We're a lunar infrastructure company, and the infrastructure of the moon base won't be built by astronauts alone," the company's Vice President of Strategy Michael Moreno told Space.com. "It'll be an autonomous robotic workforce, and that's our expertise."Space.com spoke with Moreno in April 2026 at the Space Foundation's annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs about Lunar Outpost's vision for autonomous technologies that will operate alongside astronauts to build the infrastructure needed for a sustained human presence on the moon."We have rovers that will do autonomous infrastructure construction, lunar surface improvement, help build launch and landing pads, energy storage, and habitats," Moreno said. "So, all of the things that humans will need for a permanent human presence, Lunar Outpost was built to help to build, maintain and operate."
