The 9th joint meeting of The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and sponsored by Advanced Space and Honeybee Robotics was held on June 12-15, 2018 at the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, CO.
With a record attendance of 172 participants, there were 64 technical presentations and 3 roundtable discussions on lunar, Martian, and asteroidal ISRU activities, as well as the latest economic models, legal and policy contributions, international participation, and private sector involvement in this field.
This year, the conference was followed by the Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop, which was sponsored by the SRR, the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), and United Launch Alliance (ULA). The objective of this workshop was to develop a plan for a prospecting campaign to characterize the ice at the lunar poles.
Proceedings and pictures of the conference are now available. The conference program may be downloaded from: 2018 SRR / PTMSS Final Program