DURALUNA

DURALUNA NUW-LHT-5M is the most comprehensive and representative high-fidelity lunar highlands regolith simulant to be developed. Uniquely designed and engineered by Washington Mills in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), DURALUNA was created to match the mineralogy, chemistry, mechanical behavior, and thermophysical response of the regolith found at the Lunar South Pole.

Developed using samples collected during the Apollo missions, DURALUNA replicates the composition, particle size distribution, and material behavior of true lunar regolith through the proprietary milling and blending of terrestrial minerals and LUNAGlass, Washington Mills’ synthetic high-fidelity lunar glass.

Designed for the Artemis Era

As NASA’s Artemis Program advances across mission phases toward sustained lunar surface operations, engineering decisions made on Earth will increasingly shape mission performance, risk, and cost. From Phase I landing and ascent hardware to mature ISRU technologies, engineering teams require terrestrial test environments that accurately represent lunar materials and conditions at system scale.

Purpose-built with NASA and the USGS, DURALUNA NUW-LHT-5M delivers a lunar regolith simulant with unmatched fidelity across the mechanical behavior and thermophysical characteristics most relevant to lunar operations. NUW-LHT-5M enables rigorous, actionable testing, allowing engineers to validate designs, identify failure modes, characterize risk, and close performance margins earlier in development and with greater confidence.

By improving test realism, DURALUNA:

• reduces technical risk
• accelerates development and design cycles
• controls downstream costs
• improves on-lunar demonstration readiness

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Applications

DURALUNA NUW-LHT-5M synthetic high-fidelity lunar simulant is NASA-approved, making it the ideal material for evaluation, design and validation cycles across a broad range of scientific, commercial, and research-based lunar systems.

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Trusted Materials Expertise

When developing synthetic materials for extreme environments, NASA and other authorities rely on Washington Mills for our unrivaled expertise in:

•  Mineral properties and material behavior
• High-quality fusions
• Precision processing and material control

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