In the 2009 film 'Moon', what is the name of the company that operates the lunar mining base?

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In the 2009 film “Moon,” Lunar Industries operates the lunar mining base.

The company runs Sarang Station on the far side of the Moon, where automated harvesters extract helium-3 from lunar soil. In the film’s future setting, helium-3 has become a major energy source for Earth after an oil crisis, making Lunar Industries an enormously powerful corporation.

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, is the base’s lone human employee. His three-year contract requires him to monitor the harvesters, retrieve helium-3 canisters, and send them toward Earth. His only regular companion is GERTY, the station’s artificial intelligence.

The company’s apparently efficient operation conceals the film’s central moral horror: Lunar Industries uses cloned versions of Sam to avoid the expense of repeatedly training and transporting new workers. The name can be confused with corporations from other science-fiction films, such as Weyland-Yutani in “Alien” or the Tyrell Corporation in “Blade Runner,” but neither operates the base in “Moon.”

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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