Articles tagged: Resource Prospector

• March 2016 Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder

  ... lunar regolith from as deep as 1m below the surface, and processing in the OVEN subsystem. Mission overview Resource Prospector is a Phase A project, managed within the Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division of NASA’s Human Exploration and...

  • Daniel Andrews
  • ISRU
  • LCROSS
  • lunar pathfinder
  • Resource Prospector
  Authors: Daniel Andrews    
• 30 April 2018 NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission

  ... have left many in the lunar science community confused and angered after the agency decided to scrap it’s Resource Prospector mission - it’s only planned robotic mission to the Moon’s surface. The move is seen as somewhat of a puzzlement given the...

  • Human Exploration and Operations Directorate
  • Lunar and Planetary Institute’s Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG)
  • lunar landers
  • moon exploration
  • Resource Prospector mission
• May 2018 Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?

  ... will ever be capable of such endeavours, but this monopoly over space resources should be overcome and placed under proper international control. NASA’s Resource Prospector aims to be the first mining expedition on another world. Space taxes As the...

  • mining
  • Outer Space Treaty (OST)
  • space law
  • Taxation
  Authors: Milan Mijovic    
• June 2017 How to build a Moon base cheaply

  ...coming years, government-sponsored and private-sector spacecraft will land on the Moon. This image shows a resource prospector carrying a Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment, intended to find...

  • asteroids
  • Moon base
  • space colonisation
  Authors: Alexander Mayboroda