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Space Resources Roundtable XIX /
Planetary & Terrestrial Mining
Sciences Symposium

The ninth joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and sponsored by Advanced Space and Honeybee Robotics was held at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado on June 12-14, 2018. The meeting was followed by the Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop (LPPW) during June 14-15, 2018, which was sponsored by the SRR, the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), and United Launch Alliance (ULA).

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

Presentations and Final Report from the Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop may be viewed through the download links provided here.

Pictures of Technical and Poster Sessions, Wednesday Banquet, and Workshop Sessions, Teams, and Thursday Reception are available below.

Proceedings (Abstracts and Presentations)

Introduction

Angel Abbud-Madrid, Colorado School of Mines
The Status of Space Resources, Future Opportunities, and Highlights of the 9th Joint SRR-PTMSS Meeting
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41.3 mb

Technical Session 1 - Latest Developments in Space Resources

Diane Linne, NASA Glenn Research Center
Current Activities in the Advanced Exploration Systems ISRU Technology Project
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21.8 mb

Larry Meinert, United States Geological Survey
What Can We Learn from Centuries of Exploration, Mining, and Assessment on Earth to Better Utilize the Rest of the Solar System?
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15.8 mb

Ron Turner, NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Explores ISRU concepts
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55.9 mb

Don Barker, MAXD, Inc.
Towards the Development of a Planetary Resource Management System: Understanding the Why
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4.5 mb

Bob Lamboray, Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg
Building a Space Development Industry in Luxembourg
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2.8 mb

Technical Session 2 - Economics, Business, and Policy

Bernard Kutter, United Launch Alliance
Transportation and Propellant Resources in the Cislunar Economy
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15.1 mb

George Sowers, Colorado School of Mines
A Business Case for Mining Propellant on the Moon
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7.0 mb

Doug Plata, The Space Development Network
Five Phases of Technical and Financial Lunar Development
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23.0 mb

Brad Blair, NewSpace Analytics
Modeling Lunar Partnerships for the NASA Emerging Space Office
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12.7 mb

Eric Ward, Aten Engineering
Framework for Valuation of Asteroid Mining Options, Incorporating Strategic Knowledge Gaps, Market Demand and Temporal Dependencies of in Space Resource Availability
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9.0 mb

Jeff Greenblatt, Emerging Futures, LLC
Space Commodity Trading on the Moon and with Other Solar System Locations
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5.5 mb

Ian Lange, Colorado School of Mines
How Space Mining Missions will Disrupt Mineral Markets and Contracts
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1.0 mb

Ian Christensen, Secure World Foundation
Policy Building Blocks for Space Resources Development
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2.8 mb

Technical Session 3 - Individual Poster Presentations (Short Talks)

Gordon Wasilewski, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
A Case for Extraterrestrial Water Reserves and Resources
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2.6 mb

Ruby Patterson, Southwest Research Institute
Using CT Scanning to Examine Lunar Regolith Porosity as a Function of Grain Shape and Depth
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13.1 mb

Niklas Anthony, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Cubesat-Minimoon Rendezvous Mission Synthesis and Analysis
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12.2 mb

Aaron Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Modeling of JSC-1A Lunar Simulant Flow and Heat Transfer in the Helium Extraction & Acquisition Testbed
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44.0 mb

Nicholas Proctor, Colorado School of Mines
Economic Feasibility of Space Solar Power in Remote Mining Operations
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1.0 mb

Nicholas Campbell, University of Colorado, Boulder
Increasing Lunar Propellant Delivery Capability with ACES Aerobraking
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1.0 mb

Hiroyuki II, Wakayama University, Japan
Simulated Lunar High Land Rocks Using Japanese Igneous Rocks
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2.7 mb

Andrew Brewer, Blueshift, LLC
Concentrated Solar Energy for Manufacturing in Space
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41.3 mb

Diego Urbina, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Robotic Prototypes for 3D printing with Lunar Regolith and Sunlight Developed in the RegoLight Project
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5.2 mb

Hiroshi Kanamori, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Production of Gravel from Lunar Soil Simulant by Rapid Microwave Sintering
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16.5 mb

Technical Session 4 - Space Manufacturing and Processing Technologies

Sherry Schmidt, Deltion Innovations, Ltd., Canada
Percussive Rotary Multi-Purpose Tool (PROMPT)
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3.2 mb

Mark Berggren, Pioneer Astronautics
Extraterrestrial Metals Processing
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21.0 mb

Gary Calnan, CisLunar Industries
Cislunar Industries(TM) Space Foundry(TM): Recycling Space Debris into Refined Materials for In-Space Use
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90.5 mb

Evgeny Shafirovich, University of Texas at El Paso
Self-Propagating Chemical Reactions for Making Materials and Structures from Lunar and Martian Regolith
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22.8 mb

Gareth Morris, Colorado School of Mines
Foam Structures for Encapsulating Regolith in Additive Manufacturing Applications
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6.7 mb

Technical Session 5 - Mars Resources

Richard Davis, NASA Headquarters
Looking Ahead: Reconnaissance for Mars
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15.0 mb

Julie Kleinhenz, NASA Glenn Research Center
Mars Sample Return Objectives Relevant to Future In-Situ Resource Utilization
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5.0 mb

David Beaty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Informing the Selection of the First Human Landing Site on Mars: An Overview of NASA Mars Water Mapping Projects
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38.8 mb

Colin Dundas, United States Geological Survey
Martian Ice as a Resource for Exploration: Current Knowledge and Recent Results
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67.9 mb

Nathaniel Putzig, Planetary Science Institute
Orbital Radar Assessments of Non-Polar Ice-Rich Terrains on Mars
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76.0 mb

David Dickson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mars Pathfinder ISRU Modeling and Simulation
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7.5 mb

Julie Kleinhenz, NASA Glenn Research Center
ISRU Technology Development for Extraction of Water from the Mars Surface
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1.5 mb

Michael Johansen, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Electrostatic Precipitation for Cleaning Mars Atmospheric ISRU Intakes
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3.0 mb

Forrest Meyen, Draper
Solid Oxide Electrolysis Calibration and Characterization Plan for the Mars Plan for the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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41.7 mb

John Wilson, Air Squared, Inc.
Scroll Compressor for Mars Atmospheric Acquisition
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11.1 mb

Neal Sullivan, Colorado School of Mines
Production of Methane and Oxygen on Mars Using Proton-Conducting Ceramics
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6.9 mb

Robert Zubrin, Pioneer Astronautics
Demonstration of a Piloted Mars Mission Scale RWGS System
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22.1 mb

Paul van Susante, Michigan Technological University
Hard Rock Water Jet Mining, a Novel Method to Extract Water from Poly-Hydrated Sulphates on Mars
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36.8 mb

Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics
RedWater: Extraction of Water from Mars Ice Deposits
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116.7 mb

Technical Session 6 - Small Bodies Resources

Laszlo Kestay, United States Geological Survey
Successful Demonstration of the Feasibility of Applying the USGS Resource Assessment Methodology to Near-Earth Objects
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20.1 mb

Mike Jude, University of North Dakota
Risk Assessment of an Asteroid Mining Ventures Using Decision Modeling and Monte Carlo Simulation
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7.8 mb

Philip Metzger, University of Central Florida
Asteroid Regolith Model and Figure of Merit for Asteroid Simulants
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11.6 mb

Joel Sercel, TransAstra Corporation
Asteroid Mining Mission System Concept
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96.4 mb

Jay McMahon, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dismantling Rubble Pile Asteroids with Area-of-Effect Softbots (AoES)
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77.3 mb

Mihkel Pajusalu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Methane Production from Carbonaceous Chondrites Using Electromethanogenesis
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16.2 mb

Technical Session 7 - Moon Resources

Jim Keravala, OffWorld
Building Solar System Infrastructure with the OffWorld Industrial Robotic Workforce
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7.2 mb

Julien-Alexander Lamamy, ispace Europe, Luxembourg
Commercial Exploration of Lunar Resources with ispace and the Polar Ice Explorer Mission
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17.8 mb

Diego Urbina, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
ALCHEMIST - Lunar ISRU Demonstration Payload
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17.2 mb

Laszlo Kestay, United States Geological Survey
Applying the USGS Resource Assessment Methodology to the Moon: Three Very Different Cases
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10.2 mb

Warren Platts, Groundhog GeoScience, LLC
Strategic Knowledge Gaps I Have Known
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35.9 mb

Allison Zuniga, NASA Ames Research Center
Lunar COTS Concept: A Public/Private Partnerships Approach for Lunar Resource Prospecting, Extraction and Infrastructure Development
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30.3 mb

Bradley Cheetham, Advanced Space
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS)
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3.1 mb

John Mankins, The Moon Village Association
Progress toward Earth's Moon, Ongoing Moon Village Association Efforts
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12.1 mb

Diego Urbina, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation (LUVMI): Low-mass, Low-footprint, Payload and Robotic System for the Sampling of Volatiles at the Lunar Poles
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23.9 mb

N. Uyama, Shimizu Corporation, Japan
Lunar Soil Simulant in Japan 2018
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27.5 mb

Jamal Rostami, Colorado School of Mines
Challenges of Designing a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for Development of Underground Structures on the Moon
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35.1 mb

Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics
TRIDENT: The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploration of New Terrains
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50.2 mb

Christopher Dreyer, Colorado School of Mines
Ice Mining in Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions
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11.7 mb

LUNAR POLAR PROSPECTING WORKSHOP

George Sowers, Colorado School of Mines
Introduction
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3.8 mb

Clive Neal, Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG)
State of Knowledge of Lunar Polar Ice and Volatiles
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4.8 mb

Clive Neal, Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG)
LEAG Lunar Exploration Roadmap
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29.1 mb

George Sowers, Colorado School of Mines
Lunar Ice Mining Strategic Knowledge Gaps
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7.0 mb

Christopher Dreyer, Colorado School of Mines
Summary of Prospecting Technologies
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22.1 mb

George Sowers, Colorado School of Mines
Team Introduction
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3.1 mb

FINAL REPORT
LPPW 2018
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10.9 mb

Pictures of Technical Sessions

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Technical Sessions 1	Technical Sessions 2
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Technical Sessions 5	Technical Sessions 6
Technical Sessions 7	Technical Sessions 8
Technical Sessions 9	Technical Sessions 10
Technical Sessions 11	Technical Sessions 12
Technical Sessions 13	Technical Sessions 14
Technical Sessions 15	Technical Sessions 16
Technical Sessions 17	Technical Sessions 18
Technical Sessions 19	Technical Sessions 20
Technical Sessions 21	Technical Sessions 22
Technical Sessions 23	Technical Sessions 24
Technical Sessions 25	Technical Sessions 26
Technical Sessions 27

Pictures of Poster Session

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Poster Session 1	Poster Session 2
Poster Session 3	Poster Session 4
Poster Session 5	Poster Session 6
Poster Session 7	Poster Session 8
Poster Session 9	Poster Session 10
Poster Session 11	Poster Session 12

Pictures of SRR-PTMSS Banquet

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Banquet 1	Banquet 2
Banquet 3	Banquet 4
Banquet 5	Banquet 6
Banquet 7	Banquet 8
Banquet 9	Banquet 10

Pictures of Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop

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Lunar Workshop 1	Lunar Workshop 2
Lunar Workshop 3	Lunar Workshop 4
Lunar Workshop 5	Lunar Workshop 6
Lunar Workshop 7	Lunar Workshop 8
Lunar Workshop 9	Lunar Workshop 10
Lunar Workshop 11	Lunar Workshop 12
Lunar Workshop 13	Lunar Workshop 14
Lunar Workshop 15	Lunar Workshop 16
Lunar Workshop 17	Lunar Workshop 18
Lunar Workshop 19	Lunar Workshop 20

Pictures of Lunar Workshop Reception at CSM Geology Museum

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Workshop Reception 9	Workshop Reception 10