Preliminary Agenda Now Available!

We’re excited to share the preliminary agenda for Space Resources Week! This early version gives a first look at the sessions and themes we’ll explore together.

Please note that this agenda is provisional and subject to change as final confirmations are made.

We’ll continue updating the program in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Plenary Room

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Moderated by: Lisa Burke

NASA STMD LSII ISRU Focus Group Update and Path Forward Charles Hibbitts
Lunar ISRU Mission Objectives and Technology Development at JAXA      Jun Shimada

 

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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Session chair: Lisa Burke

MAGPIE: Science planning and mission design for a European lunar polar rover mission        Abbie Hutty
Blue Oasis mission Vlada Stamenkovic
Nanosatellites in support of a Luxembourg based Lunar resources prospecting mission Edgar Milic
Advanced Radar Instruments For Near-Earth Asteroid Characterisation Christian Schmidt
Commercial-Led Missions to Prospect the Moon for Helium-3 Gary Lai
Intuitive Machines: Enabling Commercial International Lunar Scientific Exploration Ben Bussey
High-Fidelity Lunar South Pole Mapping to Enable Resource Utilization and Polar Mobility Sotirios Zormpas

 

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5:45 PM - 7:30 PM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Toward a Global Alliance for Space Resources: Introducing CACE Hirdy Miyamoto
Europlanet – Supporting the International Community of Planetary Science and Exploration                  Dennis Harries
MoonPort: A European Vision for the 8th Continent Tomas Hamann
Lunar Industry Development Satoru Kurosu

 

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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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The Australian Rover Challenge : Student-built rovers for full-scale simulated lunar missions                   Daniel Ricardo
Coming soon: Strategic facilities at ESRIC for the ISRU Community Emma Cooney

 

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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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Procedural Convergence and Hybrid Governance in Space Resource Activities                                                  Alexandra Ruiz Castillo
What Regulators Actually Need to See: A Minimal Evidence Framework for Space Resource Authorization Edward Koellner
Science vs Commerce on the Moon: Who Takes Priority in Lunar Resource Activities? Günes Ünüvar
From Terra Nullius to Sidera Nullius? Ivan Fino
Planetary Defence and Asteroid Mining: A Shared Agenda for Near-Earth Asteroids Jordan Stone
Ownership of space-manufactured products Kamil Muzyka

 

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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Fragmentation of Applicable Laws in Space Resource Extraction: A Private International Law Analysis                      Lucillien Denoyelle
Mission Authorization: The Missing Link for Space Resource Operations Neha Dagley
The relevance of planetary protection for lunar exploration and resource utilisation Philipp Reiss
How can space miners establish and defend rights to offworld mining resources? Nicholas Renzler
Legal and Policy Frameworks for Equitable and Sustainable Lunar ISRU Governance Ruchira Huchgol
Between Safety and Distribution P.J. Blount

 

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5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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From exploration to prospecting: Supporting lunar resource assessments Abigail Calzada Diaz
Geologic Mapping as a Tool for Assessing Lunar Resources Carolyn van der Bogert
The International Lunar Resource Prospecting Campaign (ILRPC): Update and Next Steps Clive Neal
A Preliminary Resources Estimation for Rare Earth Elements in KREEP Deposits: the Bossa Nova Target         John Pereira Nunes II
From Lunar Resources to Reserves Laszlo Kestay
Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: implications for in situ resource utilization Richard Palin

 

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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The PRORIS-HARLOCK project for Moon resource prospecting Fabrizio Fiore
Targeting REE, Metals, and Helium-3 in HRLMM Mission of ESA Jakub Ciążela
Meteorites Laboratory Analogues for Asteroid Composition, Resources, Mission Target Selection       Lisa Krämer Ruggiu
Qualification of a LIBS payload for Lunar rovers Pavel Porizka
Apollo 16 regolith noble gas inventory as an analogue for regolith at the lunar south polar region Stephanie Halwa
HE-3 cut off grades Carlos Espejel

 

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12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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ISRU.AI: Agentic Simulation of Autonomous Lunar ISRU Operations Boris Petrovic
Playing the Long Game – Sustainable Space Resource Development          Jim Hondros
Lunar Intelligence from Amelia Space Allen Jiang
TerraSpace Pitch Eric Sundby
A Space–Earth Data Intelligence Infrastructure Leorick Chilimanzi
Vulcanis: A Multi-Sensor Payload for Real-Time Mineral Prospection Miguel Arias

 

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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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Field testing of the ispace Tenacious lunar rover across multi-terrain analogue sites Philippe Ludivig
Lunar Outpost Eagle LTV – Critical Lunar Surface Infrastructure Tim Mounsey
Passive Suspension System Breadboarding and Reduced-Gravity Mobility Testing of the LPSR   Hemanth Madakashira
LUVMI-M: A Lunar Rover Providing Commercial Mobility Access to the Lunar Surface Simon Vanden Bussche
Small landers to contribute to surfaces planetary exploration Michelle Lavagna
OASIS: a mission-enabler for Lunar surface systems Romeo Tonasso
UAV-enabled subsurface geophysical mapping for extra-terrestrial environment Christian Janke

 

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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Enabling Sustainable Lunar Water Ice Utilization through Integrated Mapping and ISRU Systems Andrew Hazelton
Key Technologies for ISRU-based Cryogenic Refueling Cedric Dupont
Decision-making for lunar production systems design & deployment under deep demand uncertainty Kosuke Ikeya
Vulnerability of multilayered lunar facilities: an astrochemical engineering perspective Matteo Curcio
The concept of Architecture for realization of sustainable Lunar Society based on water ISRU plant Kiho Fukaura
The Infrastructure of Accuracy: Validating European Precision Landing Systems for the Lunar Economy Jonathan Slavik

 

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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DESIGNING A SPACE RESOURCE FUND FOR INVESTMENT AND BENEFIT SHARING Ben McKeown
From Cost Competitiveness to Bankability: A Strategy-Led Framework for ISRU Investability Bharat Madan
The Lunar Development Cooperative: A Model for the Sustainable Development of Space Michael Castle Miller
Lunar Water Bank: Bankable Inventory, M2M Commerce, and Hedging Rails for Refueling Architecture Patrick Suen
Financing Lunar ISRU Infrastructure: A Macroeconomic Framework for Evaluating Funding Instruments      Luis Torres
From Demonstration to Operations: Commercialization Readiness in Lunar ISRU Craig Pritsky

 

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12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 

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How Astronauts Construct Resource Economies Darshan Vigneswaran
From Earth to Orbit: Space Resource Ambitions and Geoeconomics of Critical Supply Chains   Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
Towards a Lunar Commodities Stewardship Strategy George Lordos

 

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2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Time Zone: (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam [Change Time Zone]

Sigma Room

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session chair:

ESA’s Vulcan Facility Overview: Applied Simulants Research Christopher Ogunlesi
Characterising the form and morphology of icy lunar regolith for In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU)                                  Daniel Ricardo
Simulation of the Lunar Surface Environment (LSE) and of oxidatively activated Lunar dust simulants Elias Chatzitheodoridis
High-Fidelity Lunar Regolith Simulants (TLH-0, TLM-0) for Space Resources and Mission Risk Reduction Fernando Alberquilla
Recent Developments in Tailored Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants for Advanced European Research Johannes Becker
The Design and Development of a Lunar South Pole Simulant. May Martin

 

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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Granular Experiments Under Reduced Gravity – A Joint Rack Jonathan Kollmer
Results of PETER PFC experiment conducted in lunar gravity during parabolic flight campaign                           Karol Seweryn
Development and Lunar-g Testing of a Continuous Lunar Regolith Particle Size Classification System Xiaochen Zhang
Modelling Dry Praticle Size Classification in Lunar Gravity Miguel Albino
Vibratory Transport Behavior of Lunar Regolith Simulants in Reduced Gravity Jarrett Dillenburger
Miniaturized sampling tool for non-cohesive surface material sampling Michelle Lavagna


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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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Universal Predictors of Regolith Behaviour (UPREB) – A Universal Tool for Designing Lunar Hardware Tehya Francesca Birch
Regolith Flow Assurance for Lunar Mining: Standard Metrics and a De-Risking Roadmap Alan Carter
Optimisation of an Electrodynamic Dust Shield for the Australian lunar ‘Roo-ver’ mission Daniel Ricardo
Electrostatic Lunar Dust Mitigation Technologies Philipp Zanon
Lunar Surface Cleaning Robotic unit with Electron Beam [SCRUB] Paula Andrea García Suárez
Building the Regolith Logistics Backbone: Technical Advances from Polimak Space Frank Koch
DISTOBEE: An Integrated System for Digging, Storing and Beneficiation of Lunar Regolith Piotr Kulinowski
Dual-Purpose Drivetrain: A Bucket Drum for Large-Scale ISRU Regolith Acquisition Kamil Grassmann

 

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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Session chair:

Developing low-binder lunar regolith-based geopolymers for construction on the Moon using AdMa                  Lorenzo Di Mattia
Additive Lunar Construction by Vitreous Multimaterial Transformation (VMX) Lynn Stevens
Fibre-Enabled Regolith Manufacturing for Lunar Infrastructure Monika Brandić Lipińska
Deep Sintering of Lunar Regolith Simulants - Recent Advances Robin Nitschke
HESTIA: A Scalable Robotic Lunar Remote Camp with Growth Path to Human Habitation Simon Kristensen

 

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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session chair:

OXYGEN – novel payload for oxygen extraction from lunar regolith Artur Fouto
The Italian ORACLE payload for extracting oxygen on the Moon                                                                               Francesco Latini
MiniROXY – progress towards a lunar demonstration and material selection for reliable operation Georg Poehle
Pretesting of an FFC Molten Salt Electrolysis Reactor Breadboard for Lunar Oxygen Extraction Francisco J. Guerrero-Gonzalez
HEPHAESTUS – a lunar ISRU technology demonstration payload of a full manufacturing facility Alex Ellery
Ca-Al-enrichment in lunar regolith simulants via laser-driven selective vaporization Lucas-Brian Christen

 

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Session chair: 

Solar Vacuum Pyrolysis for Lunar Oxygen: Benchmarking Regolith Simulants Jack Robinot
Solid-gas carbothermal reduction experimental characterisation on lunar regolith simulants                        Alice Dottori
From ice mining to propulsion with the Ice2Thrust project Philipp Reiss
Development of a water purification prototype for lunar ISRU Ainur Yerzhankyzy
Purifying the Moon: Innovations Unlocked by the Aqualunar Challenge Dana Lefebvre
Development of Water Extraction Systems Using Heat Transfer Fluid for In-situ Resource Utilization Suzuna Okamoto

 

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12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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Integrated Plasma–Membrane Reactor for Fuel Production on Mars Lanie McKinney
The Martian Mindset -- A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm Lucio Colombi Ciacchi
Solid oxide Cell technology for propellant and power production using space resources Michele Hollist
Low-Temperature Electrochemical CO2 Conversion for Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization Paulina Govea-Alvarez
In Situ Monitoring of Regolith L-PBF: Insights and Strategies for Printability Enhancement Yassir Ben Dahou
Regolith to Repairs: ISRU for Additive Manufacturing of Electronics Christian Rein
Utilization of Martian atmospheric gases for collection, transport and beneficiation of regolith   Mateo Rejon Lopez

 

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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Toulouse Task Force on ISRU activities on additive manufacturing with regolith simulants Julien Granier
Powder Handling in Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition Under Space Conditions Marvin Raupert
Optimizing Additive Manufacturing of Lunar Regolith Ceramics via Preliminary Magnetic Beneficiation Maxim Isachenkov
Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization of ISRU-Derived Al Processed by Electron Beam AM           Xavier Walls
From Astronaut Trash to Space Resources: Recycling Logistics Waste into Injection-Molded Composites Lanie McKinney
From space waste to usable resources: Development of a lunar hardware recycling system Trunal Patil

 

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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session chair: 

Enabling access to the Moon: a lander built for today's launch infrastructure Alex Pinel Neparidze
LEO Free Flyers with Earth Return for Scalable Space Resource Utilization Ryan Reel
Autonomous Cryogenic Refuelling Infrastructure for Scalable Cislunar Operations Richard Nederlander
A.P.E.X.: Real-Time AI Mineral Analysis for Lunar/Martian ISRU Eronim Mihoc
Thermal Management in Lunar In-Situ Composite Manufacturing: Leveraging Phonon Physics Sujit Pal
Lunar dust mitigation in solar cells using nanomaterials and thin films from moon regolith simulants Mario Alejandro Mejía Escobar
Rapid Large-Scale Resource Prospecting via Wind-Driven Tumbleweed Swarms James Kingsnorth
Lunar Resources Registry Exchange for Developing Sustainable Commercial Lunar Resources Operations     Simon Drake
SpaceLand Mars Habitat: Revolutionizing Housing Construction on Mars and on the Earth Celeste Petraroli
OLH : An Inflatable Lunar Habitat Integrating Advanced Materials and Autonomous Habitat Management Gabriele Carrozza
Geometry-Driven, Reconfigurable, Serviceable Systems for Resource-Constrained Lunar Infrastructure Omid Hajishirmohammadi
Enabling Scalable Space Resource Infrastructure through In-Space Joining and Assembly Guillaume Mohara

 

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 

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Preliminary design of a power supply system for lava tube exploration Ricard González-Cinca
Building the Lunar Energy Grid: Collaborative Engineering for Fission Surface Power Deployment     Tomasz Adach
Rethinking ISRU systems with solar concentration Alexandre Meurisse
Scalable Autonomy for Lunar Regolith Processing in Extreme Environments Vivek Shankar Varadharajan
Robust Bayesian Material Tracking for Autonomous Space Resource Extraction Jared Millane
Reliability-Aware Lunar Volatile Prospecting With Onboard Uncertainty and Drift Monitoring Sylvester Kaczmarek
Application of AI Agents for Excavation and Maintenance in Space Resources Mining Operations ABDOLSATTAR ROUDINI
3RO: RObotics ROad ROver Integration System for Modular Lunar Infrastructure Donguk Agos Lee

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Time Zone: (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam [Change Time Zone]