Open Lunar Foundation

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We're incredibly grateful for the brilliant minds who've supported our research over the years! Dive into their contributions here: openlunar.org/fellows P.S. Open Lunar is about to kick off our 2025 research fellowship program. Stay tuned for details! 👀

Want to get involved? Our contact form and simplified donation page make supporting lunar innovation straightforward and accessible.

Explore new ways to: ✨ Access our research: openlunar.org/publications ✨ Learn more about who is working with us: openlunar.org/team ✨ Learn about ongoing and upcoming projects: openlunar.org/projects ✨ Engage with our mission: openlunar.org/join

Fresh look, same mission! ✨ We’ve upgraded our website at openlunar.org to better serve researchers, partners, and supporters. You’ll find clearer project descriptions and contributors, updated library of our papers and white papers, and an easier way to get in touch.

🚀 Leadership roles are open at Open Lunar Foundation. Impact lunar governance, drive partnerships, and shape a shared human future in space. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to scale the world’s dedicated lunar nonprofit! 🌌openlunar.org/blog/hiring-in…

🌕 Calling senior leaders in space! Open Lunar Foundation is hiring for executive capacity to scale partnerships, fund innovative lunar projects, and shape the Moon’s cooperative future. 🚀 openlunar.org/blog/hiring-in…

We are excited to continue our work in the new year, with 3 priorities that have emerged from our Ideas to Hunches process - keep an eye out for more details. Happy holidays from the Open Lunar team!

What a year! This year brought us many incredible adventures that we have highlighted in this snapshot. Thank you to all our fellows, affiliates, board members, and community members, without whom our mission would not be possible.

🌙 Space Policy Futures and Lunar Development - Antonino Salmeri, Initiative Lead: youtube.com/watch?v=QqIDEk… 🌙 To the Moon and Beyond - Mehak Sarang, Former Fellow and Affiliate: youtube.com/watch?v=ttfr_e…

🌙 Complications of a Lunar Coordinated Time Scale - Philip Linden, Fellow: youtube.com/watch?v=-s17VJ… 🌙 Lunar Landing Pad Mission - Ashley Kosak, Fellow: youtube.com/watch?v=uoPA5N… 🌙 Lunar Power Standards - Paolo Pino, Fellow: youtube.com/watch?v=jsh_SO…

Open Lunar and @foresightinst collaborated on the 2024 Foresight Space Futures and Governance Workshop, where leading experts, including our fellows, affiliates, and partners, presented their research, along with key topics in lunar development. Watch the recordings here:

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Our affiliates share our vision for a cooperative lunar future. Each of our affiliates play a key role in evaluating and guiding our projects, along with setting the strategic direction for our investments. Learn more about our incredible affiliates: openlunar.org/affiliates

🧵 (3/3) 🌌 Information sharing was highlighted as a critical priority by all stakeholders, recognized as essential for effective space governance. Thank you to all participants who shared insights and connected with us!

🧵 (2/3) 🌌 Providing certainty around internationally recognised best practices and guidelines is both paramount and possible with discussions happening across the full range of commercial, government, scientific, and importantly space-adjacent actors and experts.

🧵 (1/3) That’s a wrap on the 2024 UN Conference on Space Law and Policy by @UNOOSA 🚀 Some key insights from the conference: 🌌 There is a strong shared commitment to address existing and emerging gaps in space regulation.

Our team will be in Vienna this week for the 2024 United Nations Conference on Space Law and Policy, hosted by @UNOOSA! We are excited to dive into space law and policy. If you'd like to meet with our team, reach out to samueljardine@openlunar.org.

We were honoured to collaborate with @foresightinst on the 2024 Space Futures and Governance Workshop! Participants, including Open Lunar fellows and affiliates, explored space technology and governance, including Open Lunar projects. Watch the recordings: @ForesightInstitute/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ForesightInst…

To help visualise this, check out the stakeholder map created through consultations with the Open Lunar community and Key Informants! To learn more about how diverse perspectives can shape the future of lunar exploration, read the full paper here: openlunar.org/research/commu…

Defining a set of stakeholders for an exercise such as a community certification ensures community members interested in lunar exploration, especially those traditionally underrepresented, have a voice.

Abbhinav Muralidhran’s white paper, “A Community Certification for Lunar Exploration”, delves into the importance of community input when planning lunar missions, but here’s the big question: Who exactly is the community?