In Situ Resource Utilization

  • This publication from the U.S. Geological Survey aims to provide a technically rigorous assessment of the status of lunar resource exploration as of 2022
  • ISRU Gap Assessment Report by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG), April 2021
  • Lava Hive concept for ISRU habitat on Mars
  • ESA developing drill and miniature laboratory called Prospect for extracting water from lunar regolith
  • ESA proves feasibility of process for extracting oxygen from lunar regolith
  • A decade of The Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium  Proceedings
  • Dennis Wingo summarizes the latest research on ISRU from the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) conference which took place July 15-17 2019.
  • ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands, July 2018 workshop to explore the opportunities presented by the use of lunar resources. Areas discussed and the outcomes summarized included rationales, science, technology, legal aspects and economics