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- Mines, Lunar Outpost team heading to finals in NASA’s Break the Ice Challenge
The Ice Diggers will be one of six teams facing off head-to-head this spring at a NASA-designed test facility to see which prototype lunar excavation rover performs best. - Mines student entrepreneurs named finalists in NASA challenge
Front Range Team, which includes Mines students Kenneth Liang and Chris Tolton, was one of eight groups named winners in the second and final round of the NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023. - Mines researchers get $2M from NASA to advance technology for extracting aluminum from lunar soil
If humans are going to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, they’ll need resources – and more than just water and oxygen. They’ll need metals, minerals and other materials sourced not only from … - Mines, Lunar Outpost test lunar excavation rover in 15-day durability demonstration
Mines student and faculty researchers are collaborating with industry partner Lunar Outpost to compete in NASA's Break the Ice Challenge for the chance to win $1.5 million in prizes to further de … - Mines team advances to finals in NASA Watts on the Moon Challenge
Two Colorado School of Mines graduate students are finalists in NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, a competition to design and create a system to distribute, manage and store energy on the Moon’s sur … - University team from Poland wins second annual Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
For the challenge, teams had to demonstrate the prototype systems they designed and built to move lunar regolith – or moon dust – from one area to another while also sorting out larger rocks from the … - Five teams from around the world to compete in second Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
What’s the best way to transport dirt on the Moon? University students from around the world have been considering this challenge for months. Working versions of their solutions will be on display May … - Colorado School of Mines, Lunar Outpost reach Level 2 of NASA’s Break the Ice Challenge
Colorado School of Mines and Lunar Outpost are teaming up to build a lunar excavation rover, the Outpost Digger System (ODS). This rover will be capable of excavating nearly 1 ton of concrete-hard lun … - Powering the Moon: Mines space resources students selected for NASA lunar project
Students from Colorado School of Mines’ Space Resources graduate program are finalists in NASA's Watts on the Moon challenge, working on a solution for providing energy for future lunar missions. … - Colorado School of Mines, Lockheed Martin launch 2023 Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
The global student design competition addresses a topic of increasing practical concern as humans move toward a sustainable presence on the Moon’s surface — how to move lunar soil, or regolith.