OEMF2019: Space Resource Utilisation for the NewSpace Economy

[BIO] Dr. William Crowe is co-founder and CEO of High Earth Orbit (HEO) Robotics, a company founded to collect on-demand imagery of objects that matter in space, from space. This includes assessing the health of valuable satellites and identifying minerals on mysterious asteroids... Read More →

Development of Guidelines for Resource Exploration and Classification of Water Ice Resources on the Moon and Mars [SYNOPSIS]To broaden the current scope of economically feasible robotic and human in-space activities in Earth orbit, on and around the Moon and eventually on Mars innovative... Read More →

Space resource proposals generated as a byproduct of research into a distortion-free finance model that includes risk. [SYNOPSIS] NPV depends on a risk discount; overestimating undervalues proposals and creates perverse incentives. Monte Carlo simulation can use component risks... Read More →

An investor model for OEM projects [SYNOPSIS] This research evaluates who are the current and possible investors in Off Earth Mining (OEM), what their criteria for investment are, what are their commercial expectations, and what are the technologies they are interested in investing... Read More →

Making off-Earth mining sustainable: a look at the social, socio-economic and environmental considerations of resource extraction in space [SYNOPSIS] A common thread in conversations about the future of humankind is sustainability. With the exploration of outer space set to be an... Read More →

Space Lasers: Using Power Beaming to Enable Activities in Lunar Permanently Shaded Regions [SYNOPSIS] In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) has long been suggested as a means of extending space exploration for both cis-Lunar space and further afield. Before a viable mining operation... Read More →

Robotic Mineral Exploration for Water Ice on the Lunar South Pole [SYNOPSIS] The water ice at the lunar poles presents the most promising near-term source of off-Earth resources, and a starting point for ISRU. However, our current knowledge of the distribution of this water ice is... Read More →

Tactical mine engineering for Lunar ISRU [SYNOPSIS] A significant amount of literature related to ISRU, Space Resource Utilisation or Off-Earth Mining focuses on two main facets. They are the macro level strategies such as business cases or mission architectures and also micro level... Read More →

A space mission architecture for the optimization and economic valuation of asteroid mining missions [SYNOPSIS] This presentation details PhD research into the logistics and economics of asteroid mining missions. The work presents a generalized space mission architecture representing... Read More →

Long stay-time mission opportunities’ search for NEAs [SYNOPSIS] There are currently over 20,000 known near earth asteroids and more are being discovered. Near earth asteroids are the small bodies whose orbits bring them to proximity with Earth, which makes them a unique opportunity... Read More →

Autonomous proximity navigation of spacecraft in small celestial bodies for in-situ resource utilization [SYNOPSIS] Interest in in-situ resource utilization in small celestial bodies (SCB) like asteroids has recently gained much traction in the commercial space industry. An essential... Read More →