Space Resources Roundtable XV /
Planetary & Terrestrial Mining
Sciences Symposium

The fifth joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium was held at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado on June 10-11, 2014.

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

Pictures of Technical Presentations and Tuesday's Banquet are available below.

Proceedings (Abstracts and Presentations)

Introduction

Angel Abbud-Madrid
Current Activities on Space Resources, Future Opportunities, and Highlights of the 5th Joint SRR-PTMSS Meeting
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2.4 mb

Technical Session 1

Armando Delgado
Thermite Reactions in the Mixtures of Magnesium with Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants
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7.4 mb

Thomas C. Taylor
Preliminary Commercial Mining of Lunar Surface Resources
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2.7 mb

Warren Platts and Corey Dyess
ICESIP: Internal Combustion Engine Solar Independent Propulsion for Lunar Polar Exploration Rovers
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7.7 mb

Mark Berggren
Lunar Organic Waste Reformer
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3.4 mb

Technical Session 2

Mihaly Horanyi
Development of Regolith Reference Surfaces for Laboratory Studies
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6.8 mb

Christopher Dreyer
Regolith Characterization in Small-Scale Laboratory Experiments
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1.1 mb

Geoffrey A. Landis
Resource Production on the Moon
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26.7 mb

Paul Sanchez
Penetrometry in Microgravity
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4.7 mb

Technical Session 3

Gerald Sanders
Lunar Polar Volatile Strategy: Resource Prospector Mission and Beyond
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1.6 mb

Technical Session 4

Michelle Cadieux
Asteroid Mining and Space Simulations with Citizen Science and Gaming
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7.3 mb

Robert P. Mueller
NASA 5th Annual Robotic Mining Competition for Universities: Robot Configurations and Results
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33 mb

John Hamilton
PRISM: PISCES Robotic International Space Mining Competition/PISCES Planetary Analog Site Current & Future Uses
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28.1 mb

Rodrigo Romo
PISCES Robotic Village: Developing a World Class Test Site for In-Situ Resource Utilization System and Technology Integration
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7.9 mb

Technical Session 5

Ian Seely
Proposed Method for Locating and Identifying Terrestrial Pyroducts
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11.2 mb

Robert P. Mueller
In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Concepts for a Retrieved Asteroid in a Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit
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5.0 mb

Kris Zacny
Lunar Drill Development
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3.5 mb

Kris Zacny
PlanetVac: Regolith Sample Capture and Return Using Pneumatics/ Drilling and Caching for the Mars 2020 Mission
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4.8 mb

Technical Session 6

Jim Burke
Moon-Grown Plants as a Resource
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1.1 mb

Jared Atkinson
Compressive Strength of Ice and Rock at Low Temperatures
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7.7 mb

Annalisa Dominoni
The Role of Design for Human Missions in Outer Spaces
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603 kb

Pictures of Technical Presentations and Banquet

During June 10 and 11, six technical sessions were conducted with 20 presentations in all aspects of space resources science and technology. In addition, Bob Richards from Moon Express, Chris Lewicki from Planetary Resources, and Jim Keravala from Shackleton Energy participated remotely and provided an update on their individual company plans. At the end of both days, roundtable discussions allowed all participants to discuss current projects and suggest future opportunities for technology development and flight missions.

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

SRR-PTMSS 1	SRR-PTMSS 2
Mihaly Horanyi (CU Boulder)	SRR-PTMSS 3
Chris Dreyer (CSM)	SRR-PTMSS 4
Geoffrey Landis (NASA GRC)	SRR-PTMSS 5
Jerry Sanders (NASA JSC)	Chris Lewicki (Planetary Resources)
Steven Hackenburg & Will Hayne (CSM)	Daniel Lefevbre (CSA), Jim Burke (The Planetary Society), Steven Hackenburg (CSM), and Will Hayne (CSM)
Hugh Davidson, Tom Taylor (Lunar Transportation Systems), Leonard David, Barbara David, and Sherry Schmidt (Deltion)	Ian Seely (UH Hilo), John Hamilton (PISCES), and Rob Mueller (NASA KSC)
Dale Boucher (Deltion), Jerry Sanders (NASA JSC), and Jim Richard (Deltion)	Larry Clark (Lockheed Martin), Mark Berggren (Pioneer Astronautics), and Geoffrey Landis (NASA GRC)
Dallas Bienhoff (Boeing), Leslie Gertsch (MST), Kanaan Hanna (CSM), and Alexandra Hall (Google Lunar X Prize)	Daniel Faber (Deep Space Industries), Chris Dreyer (CSM), and James Thomas (Deep Space Industries)
Ian Seely (UH Hilo)	Rob Mueller (NASA KSC)
John Hamilton (PISCES)	Rodrigo Romo (PISCES)
Ian Seely (UH Hilo)	Kris Zacny (Honeybee Robotics)
Jim Burke (The Planetary Society)	Jared Atkinson (MIT)
Daniel Faber (Deep Space Industries)