About Melange Space
Melange Space builds penetrator probes that study the Moon below its surface, including places rovers cannot reach. Each probe survives its own landing, buries itself one to three meters down and reports. Its sensors include a water detector that heats a sample and reads the vapor, a three-axis seismometer, an accelerometer and temperature readings along the body.
The home page shows the name S.C.O.U.T, short for Scalable Characterization of Unexplored Terrain, above its description of the probes. The site lists El Segundo, California as the company's location. Russell Boyer is founder and chief executive officer. His bio lists Purdue aerospace engineering, PSP Condor and the Purdue-1 Cold Atom Team, and calls him a patented inventor. The contact page invites scientists, agencies, lander operators and investors to get in touch.
Funding Rounds (SEC Form D)
| First sale | Filed with SEC | Amount sold | Investors | Avg. check | Terms | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | $15,000of $1.0M target | 1 | $15,000 | Options, Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE)Rule 506(b) | Form D ↗ |
First sale is the date the first investor in the offering committed to invest. Companies must file Form D within 15 days of that date, so filing dates run later.
Why Investors Backed Melange Space
Melange Space is building penetrator probes that measure what lies under the lunar surface. Each probe is designed to bury itself and send back water, temperature and seismic readings. One mission would place a hundred probes across a crater floor.
The problem it targets
Melange's argument is that orbital instruments infer what lies below the lunar surface rather than measure it. On that view, choices about where to build and what to extract rest on estimates at the scale of kilometers. It also holds that no mission has measured water in place beneath a permanently shadowed crater. The company was formed to close that gap.
What the product does
The design calls for a hundred probes and a hundred timed impacts in one mission. Each impact is a seismic source of known time and place, and probes already in the ground record it. An accelerometer in each probe also records its own penetration. Melange expects the data to be the first distributed seismic picture of the lunar subsurface since Apollo. The probe body is built for the shock that artillery fuzes and downhole tools have survived for decades, adapted for the cold.
How the market is moving
In Melange's view, the world is returning to the Moon without data about it. It holds that this data underpins any Moon base and a growing lunar economy. The contact page invites scientists, agencies, lander operators and investors to get in touch if subsurface lunar data matters to their work.
We wrote this summary from public statements by Melange Space and its investors. It is not investment advice.
Leadership Team
Executive officers and directors listed on Melange Space's Form D filed Oct 22, 2026.
