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Space Resources Roundtable XX /
Planetary & Terrestrial Mining
Sciences Symposium

The tenth 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, Honeybee Robotics, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Lockheed Martin, and Deltion Innovations was held at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden, Colorado on June 11-14, 2019. This was the 20th anniversary of SRR (with a record attendance of 186 participants), which was first held in 1999 at CSM!

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

Pictures of Technical and Poster Sessions, Wednesday Banquet, Thursday Reception, and Lab Tours are available below.

Report of Roundtable Discussions coming soon

The conference program may be downloaded from:

2019 SRR / PTMSS Final Program pdf file download

Proceedings (Abstracts and Presentations)

Introduction

Angel Abbud-Madrid, Colorado School of Mines
The Status of Space Resources, Future Opportunities, and Highlights of the 10th Joint SRR-PTMSS Meeting
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70.7 mb

Technical Session 1 - Setting the Scene

Dan Britt, University of Central Florida
Economics and Exploration: A Bit of Historical Perspective on our New Age of Exploration
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3.4 mb

Diane Linne, NASA GRC and Jerry Sanders, NASA JSC
Current NASA ISRU Strategic Vision
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11.7 mb

Mathias Link, Luxembourg Space Agency, Luxembourg
New Insights for Enabling In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
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2.0 mb

Carlos Espejel and Sophia Casanova, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Developing Standardized Terminology Reference Guidelines and Resource and Reserve Reporting Codes for the Space Resource Industry
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3.4 mb

Technical Session 2 - Economics, Business, Law, and Policy

Bruce Cahan, Urban Logic, Inc.
The Space Commodities Exchange: Financial Infrastructure to Grow a Sustainable Space Economy
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3.2 mb

George Lordos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lifetime Embodied Energy: A New Value System for the ISRU Space Economy
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3.2 mb

Robert Shishko, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Business Case Analysis of Lunar Thermal Mining
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2.4 mb

Jason Aspiotis and Aiden O'Leary, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
A Preliminary Estimate of Future Potential U.S. Military Supply and Demand for In-Space Water-Based Fuel
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1.6 mb

Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Korey Christensen, Hogan Lovells
Policy and Legal Processes and Precedent for Space Mining
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4.1 mb

Wayne White, Spacebooster, LLC.
Mining Law for Outer Space - How Will It Work?
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226 kb

Technical Session 3 - Individual Poster Presentations (Short Talks)

Sophia Casanova, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Developing Resource Exploration Strategies for Lunar Polar Volatiles
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2.5 mb

Frida Vonstad, University College London, United Kingdom
Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Borehole Core Testing for Extraterrestrial Material
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1.4 mb

Nicholas Campbell, CENKI, University of Colorado
Sensitivity of Private Space Station Profitability to Market Demand and Use of Space Resources
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796 kb

Ross Centers, Colorado School of Mines
Power Beaming for Rovers in Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions
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26.1 mb

H. Kanamori, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
Mechanical Property of Gravel Produced from Lunar Soil Simulant by Rapid Sintering Using Single-mode Microwave
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16.6 mb

Curtis Purrington, Colorado School of Mines
Cryogenic ISRU Robot Survival in Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions
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5.5 mb

Emmanuel Akita, The University of Oklahoma
Drilling Automation: Building an Advanced Robotic System for Directional Drilling
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13.9 mb

Gordon Wasilewski, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
A New Water Extraction Method to Generate and Control Water Reservoir in Planetary Environments
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3.7 mb

Technical Session 4 - Space Manufacturing and Processing Technologies

Kevin Cannon, University of Central Florida
Strategic Regolith Processing on the Moon and Mars
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24.8 mb

Kyla Defore, Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, Hawaii
Characterization of Hawaiian Basalt Aggregate and the Effects of Chemical Composition on Sinterability: Implications for Future Lunar/Mars ISRU Applications
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4.9 mb

Akbar Whizin, Southwest Research Institute
Additive Manufacturing and Resource Extraction Using Lunar Regolith
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114.0 mb

Hunter Williams, Colorado School of Mines
Simulant and Environment Requirements for ISRU Manufacturing Technology Development
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13.4 mb

James Bultitude, Orbit Fab, Inc.
Technology Development to Enable In-Situ Resource Derived Fuel Utilization and Transfer
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67 kb

Gary Calnan, Cislunar Industries S.A., Luxembourg
Cislunar Industries Space Foundry Lab Module: A Commercial Microgravity Metallurgical Research Service and Production Facility
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130.5 mb

Technical Session 5 - Mars Resources

Richard Davis, NASA Headquarters
Reconnaissance Needs for Future Human Exploration of Mars
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10.6 mb

Nathaniel Putzig, Planetary Science Institute
Report from the Mars Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) Project
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8.8 mb

Paul Van Susante, Michigan Technological University
Poly-Hydrated Sulfate Mining and Water Extraction on Mars: Experimental Results and System Requirements
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65.1 mb

Karan Sah, Nathan Owen, Bertrand Wieliczko, and Derek Roesch
Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge (MMIP): West Virginia University
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81.9 mb

Ismael Mercier
Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge (MMIP): Carnegie Mellon University
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2.1 mb

Richard Davis, NASA Headquarters
Lessons Learned from the Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge
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1.8 mb

Samuel Ximenes, Exploration Architecture Corp.
HexHab - 3D Printed Mars Habitat Construction and Outfitting Sequence Timeline
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69.1 mb

Jeff Greenblatt, Emerging Futures, LLC
K-Town: Portrait of a Thousand-Person Colony on Mars
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19.7 mb

Johan Vanneste, Colorado School of Mines
Membrane Bioreactors for In Situ Carbon Upcycling
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21.6 mb

Michael Hecht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory
MOXIE Delivered!
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17.0 mb

Juan Agui, NASA Glenn Research Center
A Scroll Filter System for In-Situ Resource Utilization CO2 Acquisition of the Martian Atmosphere
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9.3 mb

Jared Berg, NASA Glenn Research Center
Experimental Design and Preliminary Analysis of Mars CO2 Rapid Cycle Adsorption Pump
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6.5 mb

Stacy Carrera, Pioneer Astronautics
The Advanced Organic Waste Gasifier (AOWG)
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12.7 mb

Zehua Pan, Colorado School of Mines
Fuel Production on Mars with the Sabatier Electrolyzer
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5.9 mb

Jeff Greenblatt, Emerging Futures, LLC
Design and Modeling of an Electrochemical Device Producing Methane, Oxygen and Polyethylene from In-Situ Resources on Mars
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1.5 mb

Technical Session 6 - Providing Lunar Access and Surface Infrastructure

Stephen Bailey, Deep Space Systems
Deep Space Systems Commercial Lunar Payload Services Overview
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31.1 mb

Jon Morse, Orbit Beyond, Inc.
Overview of the OrbitBeyond Z-01 Lunar Lander Mission
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1.5 mb

David Murrow, Lockheed Martin
An Integrated Robotic and Human Approach to Lunar Exploration
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2.4 mb

Forrest Meyen, Draper Laboratory
Draper's Vision-Based Navigation Enhanced Lunar Lander & ISRU Opportunities
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2.9 mb

A.J. Gemer and Justin Cyrus, Lunar Outpost, Inc.
Commercial Lunar Surveying and Payload Mobility Services: The Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP)
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20.0 mb

Robert Moses, NASA Langley Research Center
NASA Requirements Development for Lunar In-Situ Surface Construction of Infrastructure
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7.3 mb

Elizabeth Scott, Colorado School of Mines
Concepts for an In-Situ, Reusable Construction System for Lunar Landing and Launch Pads
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19.3 mb

James Mantovani, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Lunar Infrastructure for Landing and Launch Risk Mitigation
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26.5 mb

Technical Session 7 - Cislunar and Lunar Infrastructure

Robert Zubrin, Pioneer Astronautics
Moon Direct: A Cost-Effective Plan to Enable Lunar Exploration and Development
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495 kb

Brent Sherwood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robotic Lunar Surface Operations 2
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25.0 mb

Bradley Cheetham, Advanced Space
Developing Cislunar Enabling Infrastructure
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2.2 mb

Stanley Borowski, NASA Glenn Research Center (Retired)
Commercialization and Human Settlement of the Moon and Cislunar Space Enabled by ISRU, Fission Surface Power, and LANTR Propulsion Systems
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13.0 mb

Michael Hecht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory
Satellite Beamed Power for the Moon and Mars
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62.9 mb

Elliot Carol, Lunar Resources, Inc.
The Use of Lunar Resources for Energy Generation on the Moon
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1.8 mb

Technical Session 8 - Lunar Resources

Lazlo Kestay, U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center
First Steps Toward a USGS Assessment of Lunar Regolith as a Resource
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30.7 mb

George Sowers, Colorado School of Mines
Proving Water Reserves on the Moon
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12.8 mb

Diane Linne, NASA Glenn Research Center
Oxygen Production System for Refueling Human Landing System Elements
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13.5 mb

Wenpeng Liu, Colorado School of Mines
Investigation of Properties of Icy Lunar Regolith in Cryogenic Temperature Environments on the Moon
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2.6 mb

Laurent Sibille, NASA Kennedy Space Center
State-of-the-Art of Molten Regolith Electrolysis: One-Step Oxygen and Metals Production Anywhere on the Moon
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12.4 mb

Tony Muscatello, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Architecture for a Farm in a Moon Village with In-Situ Materials for Infrastructure
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35.9 mb

Stephen Gillett
Silicon Alkoxides and Lunar Development
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633 kb

Technical Session 9 - Lunar Excavation and Drilling Technologies

Deep Joshi, Colorado School of Mines
Material Characterization While Drilling on Moon: Review of the Preliminary Atmospheric Test Results
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13.4 mb

Phillip Abel, NASA Glenn Research Center
APEX - An In-Situ Resource Utilization Excavation Research Tool
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22.5 mb

Margaret Proctor, NASA Glenn Research Center
Experimental Facility to Measure Power and Forces to Excavate Lunar Regolith Simulants
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3.7 mb

Karol Seweryn, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Excavation of Planetary Regolith in Non-Easily Accessible Places Using Wireline Technology
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3.7 mb

Drew Smith, NASA Kennedy Space Center
RASSOR Excavator for ISRU Lunar Mining
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4.1 mb

Technical Session 10 - Resources on Small Bodies

Bruce Damer and Carlos Calva, Flowspace
SHEPHERD, a Gas-Filled Enclosure for Asteroid Handling and Resource Utilization
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13.7 mb

Donald Kuettel III, University of Colorado at Boulder
Overview of Area-of-Effect Softbot (AoES) Surface Operations on Rubble Pile Asteroids
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89.1 mb

Joel Sercel, TransAstra Corp.
Roadmap to The Solar System - TransAstra's Plans for Achieving Practical Asteroid ISRU through Incremental Technology Development
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212.0 mb

Chris Dreyer, Colorado School of Mines
The Optical Mining Testbed (OMTB): A Practical Large-Scale Laboratory Device for Rapidly Maturing the Technology of Asteroid ISRU
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141.4 mb

Vincent Vendiola, Honeybee Robotics
ISRU Explorations with WINE (The World Is Not Enough)
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13.7 mb

Technical Session 11 - Planetary Excavation, Drilling, and Extraction Technologies

Robert Mueller, NASA Kennedy Space Center
A Review of Extra-Terrestrial Regolith Excavation Concepts and Prototypes
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2.6 mb

Jason Schuler, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Consolidated Material Mining for ISRU
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6.7 mb

Vincent Vendiola, Honeybee Robotics
Subsystem Testing and Results of the Planetary Volatiles Extractor (PVEX)
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27.5 mb

Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Drilling and Pneumatic Transfer of Titan Surface Materials
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14.6 mb

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS REPORT (Coming Soon)

PICTURES OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS

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

Photos of the various sessions and presenters are shown below. To view a larger version of each picture, CLICK THE THUMBNAIL IMAGE.

Technical Sessions 1	Technical Sessions 2
Technical Sessions 3	Technical Sessions 4
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	Technical Sessions 28
Technical Sessions 29	Technical Sessions 30
Technical Sessions 31	Technical Sessions 32
Technical Sessions 33	Technical Sessions 34
Technical Sessions 35	Technical Sessions 36
Technical Sessions 37	Technical Sessions 38
Technical Sessions 39

PICTURES OF LAB TOURS, DEMOS, AND POSTER SESSION

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Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 1	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 2
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 3	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 4
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 5	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 6
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 7	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 8
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 9	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 10
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 11	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 12
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 13	Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 14
Lab Tours, Demos, and Poster Session 15

PICTURES OF BANQUET & RECEPTION

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Miners Lamp Award 1	Miners Lamp Award 2
Miners Lamp Award 3	Miners Lamp Award 4
Miners Lamp Award 5	Miners Lamp Award 6
Banquet 1	Banquet 2
Banquet 3	Banquet 4
Banquet 5	Banquet 6
Banquet 7	Reception 1
Reception 2	Reception 3
Reception 4