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We wanted to give you a quick intraday update on our new alert, Astrotech Corporation (NASDAQ: ASTC).
ASTC opened today at 8.65 and has so far rallied to a high of 9.10, up +5%.
The history here is hard to ignore.
In May, ASTC rallied upwards of 700% to a high of 68.85.
Since that massive rally, ASTC has consolidated and could be positioning for another opportunity.
It does not need to get anywhere near that level to deliver significant gains from here.
ASTC has a 20 day moving average of 7.78 with a 50-day moving average of 12.63, +46% above today's open.
Last week, ASTC rallied to a high of 12.82 – and that was before this week’s news.
On Tuesday, the company announced:
“Astrotech Announces Plans for LP&L to Develop a Commercial Lunar Electric Utility”
“Proposed polar solar towers and utility-scale battery storage are designed to provide continuous day-and-night electricity through a shared lunar grid”
LP&L's proposed network would combine distributed, elevated and sun-tracking solar towers; utility-scale and local battery storage; autonomous controls; surface transmission and distribution; metering; and recharge stations. Solar generation would serve customer loads and charge storage when sunlight is available. Stored energy would feed the same grid when solar output is insufficient, with the objective of maintaining continuous day-and-night service.
Using a preliminary 90% annual solar-access case, LP&L estimates approximately 7,884 hours of potential direct solar access and 876 cumulative hours of full or partial battery support during an 8,760-hour Earth year. This is a planning assumption, not a guarantee. Final sizing would depend on site-specific, multi-year illumination and shadow analysis, customer demand, reserves and the longest low-generation period.
Under LP&L's proposed model, future customers could purchase continuous or reserved electricity, firm capacity, metered consumption, transmission, recharge services and contracted storage from shared infrastructure rather than launching and maintaining a separate power system for every mission. Potential customers may include:
Lunar construction operations for structures, landing pads and roads;
Moon-based data centers, artificial-intelligence systems, high-performance computing, communications and scientific infrastructure;
Lunar mining, excavation, resource-extraction and materials-processing operations; and
Autonomous robots, rovers, construction equipment and commercial or governmental facilities requiring continuous, reserved or backup power.
"Through LP&L, our intended product is not intermittent daytime solar energy; it is continuous utility power," said Thomas B. Pickens III, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Astrotech Corporation. "Under the proposed model, customers would receive a firm, metered service while LP&L manages direct solar generation and stored energy. LP&L also intends to evaluate nuclear fission power with qualified partners as a potential source of added capacity and resilience."
Yesterday, on Wednesday, the company announced:
“Astrotech Appoints Strategic Advisory Board To Help Advance Lunar Resources And Infrastructure Initiative”
“Advisors will support Astrotech's planned proposal under NASA's upcoming final NextSTEP-3 Appendix A solicitation and bring experience in space systems, lunar science, autonomous mining, artificial intelligence, national security and large-scale program execution”
“The Strategic Advisory Board is expected to provide technical and strategic guidance as the Company evaluates technology priorities, partnerships, mission architectures and commercialization pathways involving lunar resource mining, autonomous surface operations, materials processing, communications, power, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, and prepares its planned Appendix A Proposal.
Astrotech announced its lunar resources and infrastructure initiative in May 2026 and submitted a proposal to NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services 2 ("CLPS2") program in June 2026. NASA issued the draft LEIA Broad Agency Announcement in June 2026 to advance/progress technologies in surface power, radioisotope power, in-situ resource utilization, in-space advanced manufacturing and innovative nanomaterials. Subject to the final solicitation and internal approvals, Astrotech intends to submit a proposal in one or more areas aligned with its lunar initiative. Neither the CLPS2 submission nor the planned Appendix A Proposal constitutes a NASA selection, award, contract, funding commitment, authorization or endorsement. Development of Astrotech's planned lunar resources and infrastructure initiative is subject to, among other things, receipt of appropriate financing.”
"We believe NextSTEP-3 Appendix A aligns with several capabilities we are evaluating for a future lunar industrial platform, including power, resource utilization, autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing," said Thomas B. Pickens III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Astrotech Corporation. "Dennis, John, Clive and Greg bring the technical, scientific, government and commercial experience needed to help us develop a credible proposal, identify strong partners and focus Astrotech's resources where we believe they can create the greatest value."
STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
“Dennis Wingo - Chief Technology Officer, President and Co-Founder of SpaceBilt. Wingo is an engineering physicist, space-technology entrepreneur, inventor and author with decades of experience in space-qualified computing, spacecraft systems, solar-electric propulsion, in-space servicing and lunar mission architecture. He flew the first Macintosh computer on the Space Shuttle, used to measure the microgravity environment in Astrotech's SpaceHab module. Wingo has worked on commercial computing, avionics and data systems for space applications, including leading the team that emplaced the world's first data server on the Moon in 2025 for a commercial customer. Wingo is the author of Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon's Resources, which presents a vision for using lunar resources and commercial space infrastructure to improve life on Earth and expand economic activity beyond the planet. His work also includes patented in-space servicing technologies and concepts for scalable lunar and in-space infrastructure.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) John M. Olson, Ph.D. - President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AXIONS Corporation. A retired U.S. Air Force major general, Dr. Olson has held leadership roles across NASA, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Space Force and the Department of the Air Force. His experience includes space acquisition and operations, data and artificial intelligence, cyber, advanced technology, national security and the management of complex, multi-billion-dollar programs.
Clive R. Neal, Ph.D. - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. A leading lunar scientist, Dr. Neal specializes in lunar exploration, including the study of Apollo samples, lunar resources and the scientific and technical requirements for establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon. He has twice chaired NASA's Lunar Exploration Analysis Group and has received two NASA honors: the 2015 Michael J. Wargo Award for the Integration of Exploration and Planetary Science and the 2026 Eugene Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal for significant contributions to lunar and planetary science. Dr. Neal has also twice represented the United States before the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on legal and policy matters related to lunar resources.
Gregory R. "Greg" Baiden, Ph.D. - Chief Executive Officer of Penguin Automated Systems Inc. (Penguin ASI). Dr. Baiden is a pioneer in robotics, mine automation and teleoperated systems for harsh and remote environments. A former Canada Research Chair in Robotics and Mine Automation and former mining research executive at Inco Limited, his work spans autonomous mining, embedded intelligence, positioning, navigation, optical communications and robotic systems for underground, subsea, surface and space applications.”
We are continuing to monitor ASTC for a sustainable breakout opportunity.
Happy Trading!
SmallCapStocks Team
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