ispace and Magna Petra Corp. sign Payload Service Agreement to deliver NASA’s MSOLO instrument to the Moon

Luxembourg – October 6, 2025 – ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE), the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, inc., announced the execution of a Payload Services Agreement with Magna Petra Corp. – a lunar resources company engaged in the commercialisation of helium-3 isotopes from the lunar surface.

Under the Agreement, ispace-EUROPE will integrate a NASA-developed Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument into its upcoming Mission 3 lunar micro-rover platform as part of Magna Petra’s Helium Availability of Lunar Origin (HALO) reconnaissance mission. The ispace-EUROPE micro-rover platform is being designed and manufactured in Luxembourg.

This collaboration represents a significant step forward for international lunar science and commercial partnerships, uniting NASA’s proven instrumentation, Magna Petra’s resource exploration mission, and ispace’s larger vision for a resource-based lunar economy.

MSOLO is a flight-proven, compact mass spectrometer originally developed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to measure volatiles, including rare isotopes such as helium-3, thought to be trapped in the Moon’s regolith.

Thanks to the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Magna Petra and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Magna Petra aims to validate its AI-driven “digital twin” models of lunar isotope distribution and density, furthering its mission together with ispace to establish a sustainable supply chain including sample return capability for helium-3 – a resource that has the potential to revolutionise fusion energy and provide critical cooling for quantum computing systems.

The engineering and mission operations of the micro-rover will be led by ispace-EUROPE in Luxembourg. Demonstrating their lunar surface operations flexibility, ispace-EUROPE engineers have adapted the micro-rover to accommodate MSOLO, while ensuring delivery of all other payload objectives and will manage rover operations during the mission.

The Mission 3 rover will fly on ispace technologies U.S.’ (ispace-U.S.) APEX 1.0. lunar lander enabling a cross-continental coordination between ispace-U.S.’ and ispace-EUROPE’s operations, bringing together customer partnerships and engineering expertise.