Why now

A commercial moment for a 30-year technology


Lunar penetrator engineering — high-G survivable structures, broadband seismometry, and miniaturized comms — has been studied internationally for decades. We have built up our own hardware platform on that publicly documented engineering base.

Commercial lunar landers are now flying. Ride-share payload economics make small probes viable for the first time. We develop our own penetrators for that new commercial reality — fast, cheap, and aimed at the parts of the Moon no one has reached.

Vision

Pioneer the unreached.
Draw the future.


Human exploration has always started at a frontier. We choose the lunar subsurface — the next layer of the human-known universe — and commit to mapping it as commercial infrastructure.

Mission

A nervous system for the Moon


Deliver lunar subsurface, seismic, and positioning data as a commercial payload — high-frequency, low-cost, network-scale. Build the data foundation every lunar program will rely on.

Corporate

Company overview

Company Name Melange Space Technologies, Inc. ("Melange")
CEO Yuki Hatakeyama
Offices Tokyo, Japan · San Francisco, USA
Business Lunar penetrator design and operation; subsurface and positioning data services
Leadership

The team

Three co-founders spanning business, engineering, and US expansion.

Yuki Hatakeyama

Yuki Hatakeyama

CEO

Leads business, concept design, and fundraising. Built a small satellite in a 13-country student team at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, responsible for antenna deployment and vibration testing. Founded a marketing company in 2022 and exited via M&A in 2026. Researches terahertz satellite data utilisation at the Kasai Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo.

Russell Boyer

Russell Boyer

US Co-CEO

Co-leads strategy, business development, and fundraising, focused on the US market, government customers, and international partnerships. Studies aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue University; previously built and ran a fintech SaaS company as a solo technical founder.

Grant Fellows

Grant Fellows

CTO

Leads engineering across the penetrator, separation module, and mothership — vehicle design, systems engineering, and mission design. A Purdue University engineer, he drives the prototype programme from impact-physics modelling and sensor selection through to hardware testing.