Students from the Space Resources Graduate program at Mines in partnership with Lunar Outpost have advanced to the finals of NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge with their Outpost Digger System (ODS). The Ice Diggers team was one of 6 teams that moved on to the...
Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Space Resources Program was featured on an E&E News article addressing competing international projects to travel to and explore resources on the Moon.
Prof. Kevin Cannon from the Space Resources Program was awarded a $2 million grant as Principal Investigator over two years to advance technology for extracting aluminum from lunar soil. The Molten Aluminum Generation for Manufacturing Additively (MAGMA) project,...
Space Resources students Kenneth Liang and Mark Tolton were one of four teams selected by NASA to advance to the final level of the agency’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, which seeks solutions to transmit and store energy on the lunar surface. Ken and Mark formed...
The 23rd meeting of The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and sponsored by Lunar Outpost, Advanced Space, Honeybee Robotics, the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC), Polimak, Karman+,...
University students from around the world gathered on May 31-June 1 at Mines for the second annual Over the Dusty Moon Challenge. Mines and Lockheed Martin hosted the competition with five teams to demonstrate the most effective system for conveying lunar regolith...
