Profs. Angel Abbud-Madrid and Chris Dreyer offered a 3-day Space Resources Professional Course as part of the Luxembourg Space Resources Week on April 15-17, 2021. The course was co-organized by the Colorado School of Mines, the International Space University (ISU),...
Prof. Chris Dreyer has teamed up with Off Planet Research on a recently funded SBIR project by the National Science Foundation, entitled “Portable Production Process for icy Regoliths by Vapor Deposition.” The objective of the investigation is to create...
Prof. George Sowers was featured in a Wall Street Journal video explaining NASA’s plans to seek and utilize water on the Moon to fuel its mission to get humans to Mars.
Ross Centers, Joshua Schertz, Loren Kezer, and Adam Janikowski, graduate students of the Space Resources program have formed Hydrogen Alpha, the first space resources consultancy. The company aims to connect entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors in the space...
Prof. George Sowers in partnership with Lunar Outpost has received an Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award to develop an uncrewed modular space logistics hub located in a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1 (EML1). The...
A Mines team has been selected as one of the awardees of the 2021 NASA BIG Idea Challenge on Dust Mitigation Technologies for Lunar Applications. The team consisting of graduate students Travis Vazansky, Bailey Burns, Thao Nguyen, David Purcell, Jonathan Slavik,...