Students from the Space Resources Graduate program at Mines in partnership with Lunar Outpost have advanced to the semifinal level of NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge with their proposed Outpost Digger System (ODS). The Ice Diggers team was one of 15 teams...
Students from Colorado School of Mines’ Space Resources Graduate program have been selected to participate in Level 2 of the NASA Watts on the Moon Challenge, a competition part of the NASA Centennial Challenges Program seeking solutions for energy distribution,...
The 22nd 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, OffWorld, Lockheed Martin, Karman+, Technogenia, Cislunar Industries, and...
Mines and Lockheed Martin held the inaugural Over the Dusty Moon Challenge on June 2-3, 2022. Five university teams from around the world descended on the Mines campus to demonstrate the systems they designed and built for moving lunar regolith. Judging focused on...
NASA Deputy Administrator and former Space Shuttle Astronaut, Pam Melroy, visited the Center for Space Resources, toured its laboratories, and met with faculty of the Space Resources program. After the visit, the Deputy Administrator posted on Twitter: “Thank...
Prof. Chris Dreyer from the Space Resources Program was recently awarded a $2 million grant as Principal Investigator over two years to develop tools and methods for autonomous landing pad construction on the Moon’s surface. The ASPECT project, funded under the...
