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...
The 24th meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and sponsored by Lunar Outpost, Honeybee Robotics, Advanced Space, CisLunar Industries, Karman+, Polimak, Space Robotics Research Group at University of...
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...
