Overview

• The companies announced a feasibility study to integrate Honda’s regenerative fuel cell with Astrobotic’s LunaGrid power service to sustain operations through the lunar night.
• Honda’s system stores daytime solar energy as hydrogen and converts it to electricity during darkness, recycling water in a closed-loop cycle.
• Astrobotic’s Vertical Solar Array Technology will be evaluated in 10 kW and 50 kW configurations for pairing with the fuel cell system.
• The study includes one-year solar illumination simulations, scalability analysis, and hardware and software integration assessments for future deployments at lunar South Pole sites.
• The announcement marks an early planning phase with no lunar surface hardware yet deployed as Astrobotic advances LunaGrid as a commercial power infrastructure.