The Mines’ Center for Space Resources has built a new large Lunar Surface Simulator. The 120 square-meter simulated moonscape facility is now being used to test lunar rovers and to evaluate lunar landing and launch pads, excavation gear, robotic manipulators,...
The 25th meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and sponsored by Lunar Outpost, Honeybee Robotics, Advanced Space, Astroscale, Karman+, Polimak, Neuro Space, Technogenia, Interlune, Starpath, The...
NASA announced on January 23rd the selection of nine companies for contracts with a combined value of $24 million to study logistics needed for later human missions on the Moon, when the agency anticipates larger crews spending more time on the lunar surface. Among...
The Center for Space Resources, in partnership with the Mines Beck Venture Center and The CPI Group hosted the first-of-its-kind inaugural Space Resources Investing Summit on November 15, 2024. This one-day event consisted of an educational seminar by the Space...
Orbital Mining Corporation, an early-stage space mining startup started by Space Resources graduate students Chris Tolton and Ken Liang, won $500,000 in NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge for its lunar power transmission and storage system. Together, they created the...
Space Resources Affiliate Faculty member Johan Vanneste and PhD student Alexandre Bray developed a bioreactor that incorporates gas exchange technology to create plastic feedstock for 3D printing. With funding from NASA, and in partnership with bioplastic producer...
