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Space Resources Roundtable XI /
Planetary & Terrestrial Mining
Sciences Symposium

The joint meeting of the Eleventh Space Resources Roundtable and Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium was held at Golden, Colorado in June, 2010.

Presentations and Abstracts made available from that conference may be viewed through the download links provided here.

Pictures of the Equipment Demonstration Session are also available below.

Proceedings (Abstracts and Presentations)

Space Resources Policy

W.E. Larson
The In-Situ Resource Utilization Project Under the President’s New Budget
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G.B. Sanders, W.E.Larson
ISRU Robotic Precursor Mission Opportunities Based on Recent Events
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9.6 mb

Commercial and Logistical ISRU Concepts

T.C. Taylor, W.P. Kistler, B.Citron
Commercial Trade Route Logistics Cost
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5.5 mb

A.M. Neale
Conceptual Mine Design Proposals for Exploiting Lunar Water Ice
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4.3 mb

K. Sacksteder, S. Gokoglu, R. Balasubramaniam, A. Colozza, N. Suzuki, R.S. Wegeng, J. Matyas
Thermal Wadis in Support of Resource-Based Exploration
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4.2 mb

J.D. Humphrey, K.L. Stratton
Trends and Vision for Automation in Terrestrial Mining and its Applicability to Extraterrestrial Resource Extraction
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0.8 mb

ISRU Relevant Concepts

C. White, F. Alvarez, E. Shafirovich
Production of Structural Materials by Combustion of Lunar Regolith with Metals
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2.9 mb

R.C. Oeftering
Scavenging Flight Hardware as a Transitional Form of Non-Volatile Resource Utilization
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3.0 mb

J. Cumbers, L. Rothschild
BISRU: Synthetic Microbes for Moon, Mars and Beyond
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1.3 mb

P.J. van Susante, C.B. Dreyer
Lunar and Planetary Excavation Systems: Lessons Learned at the Colorado School of Mines
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5.0 mb

The Case for Analogue Missions

F.D. Schowengerdt, R. Fox, J. Hamilton
Participatory Space Exploration and Education at PISCES
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1.3 mb

S. Schmidt, D. Boucher, M. McTaggart
Analogue Deployment Management
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2.7 mb

P.T. Metzger, C.D. Immer, J.E. Lane, J. Smith, J.W. Studak, B.F. Banker
Rocket Plume Impingment on Mauna Kea Lunar Analog Site Compared with Photogrammetry of Apollo Lunar Landing Videos
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0.3 mb

R.S. Wegeng
What’s Next for Lunar Exploration and Lunar Resources?
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2.8 mb

ISRU Destinations

P.D. Spudis
Mini-Sar Imaging Radar and the Search for Lunar Polar Ice
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7.3 mb

R. Elphic
Current State of Knowledge of Lunar Cold-Trapped Volatiles

J.G. Rodriguez, G.J. Rodriguez
Low-Energy Intercept Orbits to NEO 2004 GU9 Offer a Compelling Opportunity for Long-Duration Manned and Sample-Return Missions
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1.4 mb

G.A. Konesky
Asteroid Tracking Using Optical Beacons
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1.4 mb

Technical Demonstration De-brief

P. Radziszewski, B. Jones, M. Farhat
Investigation Traction System Development for Lunar Mobility
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R. Theiss, D. Boucher, M. Viel, D. Roberts, J. Kutchaw
Interchangeable Payloads for ISRU Mobility Chassis
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2.2 mb

J. Richard, R. Gopal, P. Laliberté, D. Boucher
Closing the ISRU Cycle: Integrated Fuel Cell Deployment
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3.3 mb

F.J. Frenzel, T. Fu, J.D. Gammell, P.E. Grouchy, K.T. Law, E.J.P. Earon, G.M.T. D'Eleuterio, M. Viel, S. Schmidt, D.S. Boucher, J. Richard
Robotic Lessons from Mauna Kea
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0.1 mb

J.E. Captain, J.W. Quinn, and T.J. Moss
Field Scale Testing of Resolve at 2010 ISRU Analog Test
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1.8 mb

Simulants

C.B. Dreyer, K. Zacny, R.C. Anderson, J. Skok, J. Steele, G. Paulsen, M. Szczesiak, J. Schwendeman
The In Situ Rock Thin Section Instrument for Space Exploration
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3.7 mb

C. McLemore, J. Edmunson, D. Rickman, J. Fikes, D. Stoeser, S. Wilson
A Review of Lunar Regolith Simulants and their Applications
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3.7 mb

J. Gustafson, J.E. Edmunson, D.L. Rickman
Manufacturing High-Fidelity Lunar Agglutinate Simulants
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F.A. Slane, D.L. Rickman
Figures of Merit for Lunar Simulants
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Excavation Modeling

R.H. King, P.J. van Susante, M.A. Gefreh
Comparing Blade/Soil Interaction Models in a MATLAB Program to Measurements Of Forces to Push Narrow Rods through Sand and Simulant Materials for Design of Extraterrestrial Soil Handling Machines
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A.T. Brewer, R. H. King
Laboratory-Scale Distributed Stress Measurements of Blade Interaction with JSC-1A Lunar Simulant
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R.H. King, P.J. van Susante, R.P. Mueller
Comparison of Lance Blade Data and Analytical Force Models
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P.J. van Susante, R.H. King
Finite Element Method to Calculate Forces and Stresses on Blades Excavating Lunar Simulants
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4.1 mb

ISRU Processing

T. Nakamura, B.K. Smith
Solar Thermal Power System for ISRU Applications: Field Deployment and Operation at Mauna Kea, Hi.
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14.5 mb

R.J. Gustafson, B.C. White, M.J. Fidler, A.C. Muscatello
The 2010 Field Demonstration of the Solar Carbothermal Reduction of Regolith to Produce Oxygen
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2.5 mb

J.G. Mantovani, R.P. Mueller, I.I. Townsend, J. Craft, K. Zacny
Pneumatic Planetary Regolith Feed System for In-Situ Resource Utilization
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O.R. Walton, C.B. Dreyer, A.I. Abdel-Hadi
Centrifuging-Pipe Conveyor for Regolith
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6.4 mb

ISRU Hardware

L. Johnson, S. Szatkowski
A Notional Tug Concept Serves as a \“Stalking Horse" to Facilitate Excavator Development
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13.4 mb

L. Johnson, S. Szatkowski
A Modular Excavator Targets Planetary Surface Operations for Space Exploration
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2.8 mb

B.K. Smith, T. Nakamura, R. Theiss, D. Boucher
Results of Solar Sintering Experiment with Multipurpose Solar Thermal Waveguide System
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K. Zacny, G. Paulsen, M. Szczesiak, C. Santoro, J. Craft
Crux and Icebreaker Rotary-Percussive Lunar Drills
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R. Mueller, G. Murphy
2010 Lunabotics Mining Competition
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3.3 mb

Pictures of June 9th, 2010 ISRU Demonstration

On June 9th, 2010, a demonstration session was held to showcase the ISRU technologies provided by various attendees.

Photos of that session are shown below. To view a larger version of each picture, CLICK THE THUMBNAIL IMAGE.

See you all in 2011!

ISRU Equipment Demonstration site	ISRU Equipment Demonstration site
Food and lunch tents	Food tent
Frank Schowengerdt and Tony Muscatello	Bob King
Lockheed Martin Bucket Drum Excavator (Larry Clark)	Lockheed Martin Bucket Drum Excavator (Larry Clark with Frank Schowengerdt and Phil Abel)
Lockheed Martin Bucket Drum Excavator (Larry Clark with CSM students)	Honeybee Robotics Mars Rover Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) and Mars Phoenix Lander Scoop (Kris Zacny)
Honeybee Robotics Mars Rover Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) and Mars Phoenix Lander Scoop (Kris Zacny)	Honeybee Robotics Percussive Digger (Kris Zacny with Diane Linne operating the digger)
Colorado School of Mines Excavators. From left to right: Backhoe, Lunabotics Bucket Ladder, and NASA Regolith Centennial Challenge Bucket Ladder (Chris Dreyer and CSM students).	Colorado School of Mines NASA Regolith Centennial Challenge Bucket Ladder Excavator (Mark Gefreh and CSM students)
Colorado School of Mines Backhoe Excavator (Paul van Susante and CSM students)	Colorado School of Mines Bucket Wheel Excavator (Chris Dreyer and CSM students)
ORBITEC Carbothermal Regolith Reduction Module (Bob Gustafson)	ORBITEC Carbothermal Regolith Reduction Module (Bob Gustafson with Jeff Taylor)
ORBITEC Carbothermal Regolith Reduction Module (Bob Gustafson with Tony Muscatello)	ORBITEC Carbothermal Regolith Reduction Module (Doug Rickman)
ORBITEC Carbothermal Regolith Reduction Module (Bob Gustafson, Mark Berggren, and Ronald Spores)	NORCAT Chassis with Plow Payload (Brian Asbury, Jim Richard)
NORCAT Chassis with Plow Payload (Jim Richard)	NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump
NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump	NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump (Sam Benigni, SRR scholarship winning student from University of Hawaii, Hilo),
NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump (Sam Benigni operating the rover)	NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump
NORCAT Chassis with Load Haul Dump (Jim Humphrey operating the rover)	NORCAT Chassis with Plow Payload
NASA KSC/Honeybee Robotics ISRU Pneumatic Regolith Transfer System (Jim Mantovani operating it with Otis Walton and Mark Hyatt)	NASA KSC/Honeybee Robotics ISRU Pneumatic Regolith Transfer System (Jim Mantovani)
Diane Linne and Jim Mantovani	sysRAND Modular Excavator Demonstrator (Gary Rodriguez with Leslie Gertsch)
sysRAND Modular Excavator Demonstrator (Gary Rodriguez with Jerry Sanders)	sysRAND Modular Excavator Demonstrator (Tony Muscatello)
Jeff Taylor, Sherry Schmidt, and Paul Spudis	Paul Spudis and Leonard David
Dale Boucher	Laurent Sibille and Chris Dreyer
Arthur Neale, SRR scholarship winning student from University of Pretoria, South Africa	Edgardo Santiago-Maldonado and Janine Captain
Brad Blair, Leslie Gertsch, Jim Richard, and Peter Radziszewski