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Leap Works · Luxembourg

We accelerate lunar exploration

The Leap Hopper is a rocket-powered lunar drone. It travels far and fast over all terrain and scans the surface continuously in flight, reaching terrain no rover can.

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Vehicle mass
40 kg
Payload per flight
10 kg
Mapping cruise
16 km
Map resolution
15 cm
First lunar flight
2029

The challenge

Lunar exploration is still slow

Exploration needs a vehicle that collects data over large areas of rugged terrain within one lunar day.

  1. 01

    Slow, short-range mobility

    Rovers cover small distances and avoid terrain, like craters that are expected to contain valuable resources.

  2. 02

    No high-resolution maps

    Orbital imagery cannot show the detail needed to plan landing sites and bases.

Leap Works

One vehicle, many missions

We build the hopper, fly it for our customers and sell the data it collects.

Concept render of the Leap Hopper landing on the Moon

The vehicle

Leap Hopper

A 40 kg rocket-powered lunar drone: a 16 km mapping cruise covering 4 km² at 15 cm resolution, or seven 2 km hops, with landings in craters and shadowed regions.

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Colour-coded map of the lunar surface

Services

Payload, data and missions

Fly an instrument, buy high-resolution surface data, book a complete mission or flight-test lunar equipment on Earth.

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Leap Works GNC demonstrator drone

Company

Built in Luxembourg

Our story, the team behind the hopper, and how we fund the road to the Moon.

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Roadmap

From prototype to the Moon

Every prototype earns its keep: terrestrial vehicles become test platforms, and revenue starts before launch.

  1. Done

    2026

    GNC demonstrator and hybrid rocket engine ready.

  2. TRL 4

    2027

    Rocket-powered drone prototype.

    Subsystem sales and terrestrial hopper tests.

  3. TRL 6

    2028

    Structural-thermal model (STM) in thermal-vacuum test.

    Camera suite deployed on the Moon.

  4. TRL 9

    2029

    Leap Hopper lunar mission launched.

    First mission revenue.

  5. Ongoing

    2030

    Prototypes reused to test continuous improvements.

    Yearly mission cadence.

Market

A fast-growing lunar surface economy

$2.2B

Surface mobility market, 2026

$5.0B

Forecast for 2035

~10%

Annual growth

Let's plan your mission

Payload, data, subsystems or flight testing? Let's discuss your lunar surface needs.

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