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AstronetX

Cameras and telescopes for lunar and cislunar science

Raised to date

$800K

of $1M offered across 1 Form D filing

Still open
$200K
Investors
4
Last filed
Apr 1, 2026

About

AstronetX PBC is a Westport, Connecticut public benefit corporation that builds space-based observing instruments and sells the resulting observational and database services to the space science community. Its flagship system is the Lunar-based Camera (L-CAM), a commercial camera designed to fly aboard lunar landers and cislunar orbiters and return science-grade imaging data. The company is developing a multi-purpose cislunar telescope network under an Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase III contract, and designed a lunar surface telescope concept under a $1.2 million multi-year Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation research grant. Data products support astrophysics, planetary science, Earth science, planetary defense, and space situational awareness.

A commercial, hosted-payload camera flown on third-party lunar landers and cislunar orbiters, structured as a public benefit corporation so the observational data serves the open space-science community rather than a single mission owner.

Funding

  • Security to be acquiredFiled Apr 1, 2026Form D/A
    $800K/ $1M

Product

L-CAM (Lunar-based Camera)

Space-based imaging instrument

A commercial camera system designed to operate aboard lunar landers and cislunar orbiters, providing cost-effective observational data from space to researchers and government agencies.

  • Operates aboard lunar landers and cislunar orbiters as a hosted payload
  • Astrophysics observations including stellar activity, exoplanet transits, and transient sources
  • Earth science observations including polar ice monitoring and sea-level tracking

Built for

Government space and defense agencies and the global space science research community, including NASA-funded researchers, university astronomers, and Air Force Research Laboratory programs

People on file