Provisional agenda

Please note: This is a provisional agenda and subject to change as final details are confirmed.

 

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
 
 
 
 
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
 
 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
 
 
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Tenacious, First European Rover on its way to the Moon
  • High Frontier
  • Critical Insights Gained from Lunar Outpost's Lunar Voyage 1 Mission across the Lunar South Pole

Speakers

Antoine Bocquier, ispace Europe
Daynan Crull, Karman+
Tim Mounsey, Lunar Outpost
12:30 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • JAXA’s Study of a Lunar ISRU Plant and Technology Roadmapping Development
  • The Polish Lunar Mission
  • Lunar regolith as a resource: updates on the Italian ORACLE project for oxygen extraction
  • NASA STMD LSII ISRU Focus Group Update and Path Forward
  • Progress Review of NASA ISRU Development

Speakers

Jun Shimada, JAXA
Jeremiasz Merkel, Polish Space Agency
Francesco Latini, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Charles Hibbitts, JHUAPL
Gerald Sanders, NASA
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Mini-ROXY – Progress on a Lunar Demonstrator for Oxygen and Metals Extraction from Regolith
  • The ESA PROSPECT Payload: Status and Science Team activities
  • (CaRD) Project: Advancing Oxygen Extraction for Artemis Lunar Surface Operations
  • LUWEX Highlights: A Complete Process Chain Demonstration of Lunar Water Extraction and Purification

Speakers

Georg Poehle, Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden
David Heather, ESA
Koorosh Araghi, NASA JSC EP3
Luca Kiewiet, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Paul Zabel, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
  • Legal and economic strategies in the Second Moon Exploration Age
  • Usufruct as a Legal Framework for Space Resources
  • Sorting out the Space Resources Regulatory Sandbox
  • Space Mining: why we need a new treaty and what it might look like

Speakers

Laetitia Cesari, DGFLA
Martina Elia Vitoloni, McGill Institute of Air and Space Law
P.J. Blount, Durham University Space Research Centre
Andrew Cannon, Acannonconsulting
Heloise Vertadier, ispace Europe
Niklas Hedman, COSPAR
Aarti Holla-Maini, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Steven Freeland, Western Sydney University and Bond University
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Mars Oxygen and Methane System (MOMS)
  • Plasma-assisted oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere
  • Effect of Martian atmospheric manufacturing conditions on composite for in-situ resource utilization
  • Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO for In-Situ Resource Utilisation on Mars
  • Reduction of oxides using an ECWR Ar/H2 plasma - towards lunar raw materials use for H2O production
  • Liquid metal cathodes in the FFC process for a continuous reduction of lunar regolith simulants
  • First quantification of oxygen production by solar vacuum pyrolysis of lunar regolith
  • Hydrogen Reduction of Lunar Simulants with Microwaves

Speakers

Michele Hollist, OxEon Energy
Vasco Guerra, IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Sophie Gruber, Univ. of Innsbruck
Paulina Govea-Alvarez, UGhent & VITO
Marko Sikiric, European Space Resources Innovation Centre
Alexander Rützler, European Space Agency
Jack Robinot, PROMES CNRS
Andrew Morse, The Open University
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Foyer
 

Presenters

Ardan Suphi, Imperial College London
Tom Royer, University of Lapland / Arctic Centre
Louise Cantwell, WEX Foundation
Carl Shneider, https://www.uni.lu/
Thomas Kalampoukas, Beyond Orbit
Vasily Petrov, Mission Space S.A.
Miguel Albino, Instituto Superior Técnico
Adam Chopra, The Open University
Alexandra Adiaconiței, European Space Resources Centre (ESRIC)
Olivier Parisot, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Jan Raffel, Leibniz University Hannover - ITA
Didier ARL, LIST
Robin Tom Nitschke, TU Berlin
May Martin, European Space Agency
EGEMEN DEMIRER, Sakarya University
Thongwane Namane, Space Diamond Space Resources
David Frey, Institute for Space Systems, University of Stuttgart
ABRAHAM LEHI DE LA CRUZ HERNANDEZ, European Space Resource Innovation Center
Yanyan Li, Shenzhen university
Jarrett Dillenburger, European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC)
James Cole, The Open University
Trunal Patil, European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC), Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Arash Safaei, Politecnico di Torino
Franz Renz, Leibniz University Hannover
Thilo Witzel, TU Munich, Professorship of Lunar and Planetary Exploration
Deddy C. Nababan, CSIRO Mineral Resources
Sid Halder, Imperial College London
Adam Parks, University of Southampton
Tharshan Maheswaran, Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart
Hannah Fisher, Technical University of Berlin
Randi Ayman, Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg
Gilles BAILET, University of Glasgow
Mercio John Pereira Nunes Segundo, European Space Resources Innovation Center (ESRIC); Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Planetary Geoscience (GeoPlaNet)
Fernanda Vieira, Unifa
Ivan Sánchez Alva, University of Luxembourg
Dionisis Tsigalidas, Beyond Orbit
Florence Wilkinson, Univeristy of Manchester
Harald Gaber, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Linda Cortes Satizabal, Institut für Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University
Simon Stapperfend, TU Berlin
Abhimanyu Shanbhag, ESRIC
Marta Ciazela, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Csilla Orgel, ESA-ESTEC
Josef Řezníček, Tomas Bata University
Ana Pires, INESCTEC
Frank Koch, Planetary Transportation Systems GmbH
Joseph Dyson, European Space Resources Innovation Centre
Florian Hipp, University of Applied Sciences Munich
Florian Haase, JPM Silicon GmbH
Bernard Foing, ILEWG LUNEX EMMESI EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation, Qosmosys, Leiden U.
Bob Walton, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Piotr Kulinowski, AGH University of Krakow
Mykhailo Koltsov, Tallinn University of Technology
Lucas Paolo Goetz, ETH Zurich
Deniz Yesilyurt, Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University
Janusz Kozubal, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Patrick Suen, insitu.one
hongtao wang, Shenzhen University
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Building a Sustainable Lunar Economy: Refuelling and In-Situ Resource Utilisation
  • An Architecture for Helium-3 Harvesting from the Moon
  • New Opportunities for Moon & Mars Architectures Enabled by the Embodied Energy Metric
  • PLS-SEM Analysis and Domain-Specific NPV Approach for Lunar Oxygen Mining Missions

Speakers

Tejaswi Tiruvuru, Orbit Fab
Gary Lai, Interlune
George Lordos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Giulio Marano, Deloitte
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
 
 
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Foyer
 
 
 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
 
 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Evaluating ISRU for a Sustained Lunar Economy
  • How Early Lunar Habitation Consumable Demand & ISRU Demonstrations are an Off-World Proving Ground
  • Restructuring Development and Implementation of ISRU in NASA’s Artemis Program
  • Optimizing the Space Resource Value Chain for Reserves Evaluation and Cut-Off Grade Estimation
  • The Space Resources Fund: A Proposal for Benefit Sharing and Investment in SRU
  • Space Resources and Thinking Like Miners !

Speakers

Luka Malone, Imperial College London
James Johnson, Colorado School of Mines
Gerald Sanders, NASA
Carlos Espejel, ispace
Ben McKeown, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, UNSW
Jim Hondros, Off Earth Resources
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
 
 
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
  • Extraction Strategies: Space Resource Beneficiation
  • Revolutionizing Lunar Resource Utilization with Prediction Modeling and MoonFibre
  • Revolutionizing Space Mining: Delivering Lunar Regolith for ISRU Innovation
  • Geotechnical Assessments Required Before Infrastructure Construction Activities
  • Decentralised Finance, Tokenisation, and Community-Building in the Space Ecosystem: Alpha Persei DAO
  • Making the Moon Investable for Resources Investors
  • Opportunities for game-changing technology innovations for future cis-lunar mission

Speakers

Øystein Risan Borgersen, SolSys Mining
Alexander Lüking, Institut für Textiltechnik RWTH Aachen University
Luis Torres, TOM
Tomasz Adach, Astroport Space Technologies S.à r.l.
Günes Ünüvar, University of Luxembourg
Simon Drake, Lunar Resources Registry UG
Franc Mouwen, European Innovation Council
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Intuitive Machines: Enabling Commercial International Lunar Scientific Exploration
  • Active Nuclear Imaging Systems for Investigating Lunar Water Ice and Geochemistry
  • Real-Time Identification of Minerals from Multimodal Spectroscopy for In-Situ Surface Exploration
  • Integrated in-situ sensing of surface and subsurface for lunar resources prospecting
  • Exploring lunar resources using advanced techniques and machine learning, focusing on rare elements
  • Rover-wheel-based Permittivity Sensors for Prospecting of Lunar Water
  • PROGReX: a compact X-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer for prospecting of resources on planetary surfaces
  • Variational autoencoders for Discovery of Anomalous Features in Ultra-Large Lunar and Planetary Data
  • Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy as a prospecting technology for commercial ISRU missions.

Speakers

Ben Bussey, Intuitive Machines
Deniz Ölçek, University of Oslo
Igor Drozdovskiy, European Space Agency (ESA/EAC)
Francesco Soldovieri, INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY
Francesca Esposito, INAF
Christian Gscheidle, Technical University of Munich
Fabrizio Fiore, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
Daniel Angerhausen, ETH Zürich
Inna Uwarowa, Lightigo Space sarl
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • The ILRPC: An Immediate Next Step in the Exploration of Our Moon
  • An International Consortium for an International Lunar Resources Prospecting Campaign

Speakers

Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame
peter Salmeri, Lunar Policy Platform (LPP)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
 
Lari Cujko, ESRIC - European Space Resources Innovation Centre
Olivier Zephir, Technoport SA
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
 
 
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Investigating the Transport of Lunar Regolith Simulants Through Vertically Vibrated Inclined Pipes
  • Integrated Regolith Handling Technologies to Address Key ISRU Gaps
  • Novel approach to increase flowability of regolith: Agglomeration of powder for thermal spraying
  • Three-Dimensional Lunar Regolith Bucket Conveyor - LUREBUCON3D
  • Application of the Electrostatic Travelling Wave for Particle Size Classification on the Moon
  • Design of a Continuous Lunar Regolith Particle Size Classification System

Speakers

Peter Watson, University of Strathclyde
Süleyman Salihler, Polimak Space
David Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin
Piotr Kulinowski, AGH University of Krakow
Joshua Rasera, Imperial College London
Xiaochen Zhang, ESRIC
6:45 PM - 11:00 PM
 
 
 
 
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Thermal post-processing of metals extracted from lunar regolith simulant by molten salt electrolysis
  • Advancing Fibre-Reinforced Composite Fabrication Using Lunar Regolith Simulant EAC-1A
  • In-Space Manufacturing by Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition
  • Selective metal oxide extraction from regolith using laser heating
  • Production and Mechanical Characterization of Glass Fibres Derived from Lunar Regolith Simulants
  • Modular Lunar Habitats: Interlocking 3D-Printed Domes for Sustainable Exploration

Speakers

Timon Schild, European Space Resources Innovation Centre
Juan Carlos Arañó Romero, German Aerospace Center DLR
Marvin Raupert, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Lucas-Brian Christen, The University of Tokyo
Alexander Niecke, German Aerospace Center DLR
Maëlle Mathieu, Astrolith -Polytechnique Montréal
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
  • Extreme habitats
  • LunarNomad Yurts: Circular Architectural Techniques for Sustainable Habitats on the Moon and beyond
  • Regolith-based composite materials utilizing waste microbial biomass from life support systems
  • Water Circularity for Sustainable Space Resources

Speakers

Lucas Martin Dublanc, Extreme Habitats
Omid Hajishirmohammadi, 4 Earth 2 Mars Holding B.v.
Martin Cerff, Blue Horizon SarL
Shorena Tsindeliani, Hydromars AB (publ)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Foyer
 
 
 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Parallel session - Delegates room (floor -2)
 
  • FLARE: Advancing Lunar Mobility and Infrastructure with Resource-Driven Innovation
  • Smart Skin for Exploration Cobots (SSEC)
  • Modular Autonomous Platform for Exploration and Mining of Small Asteroids
  • SPACE MOBILITY: Advanced Legged Robots for Lunar Exploration and ISRU
  • SPAIDER SPACE: Building the Future Digital Workforce for Space Industry Innovation Revolution
  • icMercury - Leveraging Satellite Technology for Advancing Mining and Mineral Resources
  • From Earth to the Moon: Duremea's Fuel Cells and Electrolysers for Robust Energy Systems

Speakers

Patrick Suen, insitu.one
Anna Krzyzanowska, Danish Technological Institute
Szymon Murzyn, Main Belt Company
Konstantinos Koutsoukis, SPACE MOBILITY
Loveneesh Rana, SPAIDER SPACE
Seda Hewitt, icMercury
Sebastian Rohde, Duramea FlexCo
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Granular Modeling of Regolith-Plant Interactions for Lunar ISRU Applications
  • Regolith simulants testing for Discrete Element simulations calibrations
  • Targeted mineral beneficiation of lunar regolith: Feasibility assessment and next steps
  • How does penetration performance of soil burrowing probes depend on the tip design?
  • Lunar Infrastructure Development Engineering
  • Microwave vacuum sintering of LMS-1 simulant at different temperatures for lunar construction

Speakers

Alice Dottori, Politecnico di Milano
Damian Pietrusia, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Kunal Kulkarni, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Serena Pirrone, European Space Resources Innovation Centre
Douglas Morrison, Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI)
Vibha Levin Prabhu, ESRIC, LIST
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Foyer
 
 
 
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Maana Electric’s roadmap towards becoming the utility company of the Solar System
  • Laser-Powered Lunar Grid
  • Neamine – From Moon to Earth: solar-powered innovations for lunar ISRU and CO₂ Sequestration
  • Revolutionizing Lunar Energy: Advanced Space Fuel Cells for Moon Mission

Speakers

Francisco J. Guerrero-Gonzalez, Maana Electric
Vitalii Kapranov, powerin.space
Alexandre Meurisse, Neamine
CEDRIC DUPONT, Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
  • Europe's Largest Dusty Thermal Vacuum Chamber
  • ESA’s Vulcan Analogue Sample Facility: Applied Simulants Research
  • Recent Advantages on lunar regolith simulants for European research and its characteristics
  • Test stand for simulating and analyzing lunar thermal conditions in laser beam melting of regolith
  • Graphite Components for Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization
  • Flash Sintering of Lunar Regolith Simulant
  • From Regolith to Aluminum Additive Manufacturing on the Moon: A Bench-Scale Pathway

Speakers

Emma Cooney, ESRIC
Kamini Manick, European Space Agency
Johannes Becker, Lunex Technologies GmbH
Tim Eismann, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.
Lennart Fox, Fraunhofer IPK
David Pearmain, Lucideon Ltd
Xavier Walls, Carleton University
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Plenary room - ground floor
 
 
 
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Foyer