Astroport Space Technologies, Inc., headquartered in San Antonio Texas, USA, and Interflight Global Europe, S.à r.l. , headquartered in Luxembourg, announce their joint partnership for the launch of Astroport Space Technologies S.à r.l.  (Astroport Europe). The two companies unveiled the new Astroport subsidiary at the European Space Resources Week annual gathering of the space resources community, held in Luxembourg at the LuxExpo Box April 19-21. Astroport Europe will focus on development of lunar construction and operations technologies needed for the company's goals of emplacing lunar surface infrastructure assets such as roads and landing pads in support of the NASA Artemis program and commercial missions for mining and establishing a permanent presence on the Moon.

Astroport is developing lunar in-situ construction materials derived from regolith (Moon dirt) and the geotechnical engineering processes needed for surface site preparation for landing/launch pads, which is one of the first infrastructure elements required for permanent presence. "With a focus on "regolith works" for bulk regolith excavation and conveyance, we see Luxembourg and its thriving space entrepreneurial ecosystem as the perfect place for developing new uses and new regolith based products from stockpile accumulations of feedstock during excavation phases in our site preparation construction", said Sam Ximenes, Astroport Founder, CEO and Space Architect. The subsidiary's activities will compliment Astroport's regolith melting technology and robotic bricklaying system for lunar infrastructure construction.

Emilio de la Guardia, Astroport Europe Partner and General Manager said, "we are thrilled to be officially part of the Luxemburg space community, and look forward to forging new relationships and continuing building on collaborations we established with local space companies during our participation in the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) Startup Support Programme (SSP)". Astroport was one of 5 companies competitively selected in 2022 by ESRIC for their first cohort of companies to go through the 3-month pre-incubation course.

Oscar Garcia, Chairman and CEO of Interflight Global Corporation, based in Miami, Florida, said, "our relationship with Astroport Space Technologies both in the USA and now in Europe continues to solidify with this new partnership". Astroport Europe will be headquarters for all European operations and investment activities for European projects.

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