Students from the Space Resources Graduate program at Mines won second place and $75,000 for their proposed Lunar Ice Digging System, or LIDS at the NASA Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. LIDS would include three rovers – excavator, regolith hauler, and water hauler, as...
A team of Mines Space Resources graduate students was selected to develop innovative design ideas that will help NASA advance and execute its Moon to Mars exploration objectives. The selection is part of the 2022 Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M...
Alex Gilbert, PhD graduate student in the Space Resources program published a space resources policy article in the Milken Institute Review. The article argues that better technology, falling costs, and a rush of competitive energy from the private sector has put the...
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.
