session 5
Space Resources: Technologies, Systems, Missions and Policies
- type
oral
- Description
The field of space resources is rapidly maturing, in just five years the number of new space ventures has increased by 7000%; new process, patents, technologies and systems concepts are emerging in an unprecedented fashion. In parallel, the legal regime for identifying, extracting and beneficiating resources is undergoing a similarly rapid evolution. Led by the United States and Luxembourg, all aspects of national law fully compliant with the Outer Space Treaty are emerging. The United Nations General Assembly recently approved a non-binding resolution which allowed each nation to form national legislation which comports with the Outer Space Treaty with regard to space resources. The purpose of this session is to provide insight into the current state of the art in technology, systems concepts, economics, law and policy related to Space Resources and how to leverage the present status for the benefit of humanity. This session also deals with shortfalls in capability, that is, what is needed to further to objective of benefitting mankind with the immense resources of space. Our objective is to generate developmental roadmaps anchored in the realities of engineering and economics which can produce commercially viable space industries which are compliant with each nation’s perspectives of space resources in light of their interpretation of the OST. This session has produced two cosmic studies on space mineral resources which have achieved global acclaim.
- Date
2018-10-05
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Co-Chair: Mr. Roger X. Lenard, LPS, United States;
Co-Chair: Dr. Peter Swan, Space Elevator Development Corporation, United States;
Rapporteur: Ms. Helen Tung, NewSpace2060, Australia;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | Commercial Lunar Crater Prospector Architecture and Economic Assessment | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Roger X. Lenard | LPS | United States | |
2 | Commercial Lunar Resource Extraction Supplying a LEO Propellant Depot | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Roger X. Lenard | LPS | United States | |
3 | Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Location of a Lunar Propellant Depot: Orbit vs Surface | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Bozhidar Bahov | Space Mining Technologies | The Netherlands | |
4 | A Case Study for a Lunar Base Supporting a LEO Propellant Depot | 10 | confirmed | Mrs. Emeline De Antonio | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) | France | |
5 | Near-Earth asteroids utilization as a base for building of Earth-Mars-Moon economy | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Shamil Biktimirov | Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology | Russian Federation | |
6 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Stan Kaethler | International Space University (ISU) | Canada | ||
7 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Sophia Casanova | University of New South Wales | Australia | ||
8 | Characterizing Lunar Simulant BP-1 with Experimental and Simulation Force Comparisons | 10 | no-show | Mr. Andrew Thoesen | Arizona State University | United States | |
9 | legality of space product: rights and obligations arising from space mining activities | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Yangzi Tao | Keio University | Japan | |
10 | 10 | no-show | Prof. Lynn Rothschild | NASA Ames Research Center | United States | ||
11 | exploring potential environmental benefits of asteroid mining | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Andreas Makoto Hein | Ecole Centrale de Paris | France | |
12 | 10 | no-show | Ms. Shivangi Chauhan | University of Petroleum and Energy Studies | India | ||
13 | 10 | no-show | Mr. Ermanno Napolitano | McGill Univeristy | Canada | ||
14 | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Andreas Makoto Hein | Ecole Centrale de Paris | France | ||
15 | Logistics problems in the design of an asteroid mining industry | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Scott Dorrington | UNSW Australia | Australia | |
16 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Austin Murnane | United States | |||
17 | Concentrated Resources on the Moon: Policy and Legal Constraints | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Martin Elvis | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) | United States | |
18 | Space Foundry: Recycling Space Debris into Raw Materials for In-Space Use | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Toby Mould | CisLunar Industries | United Kingdom |