Deimos Space Resources

Shifting the paradigm in off-Earth resource development.

Created: 2023-04-29

Updated: 2024-03-09

Founded
Country
2022
Australia
Funding
?
Website
https://deimosspaceresources.com/
Deimos Space Resources

Product/Service

Classification
Space Resources
Category
Resources - Asteroid Mining
Space Mining
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
Status
Concept, Dormant
First launch
Not announced

We need to get Humanity into Space, sustainably, ‘at scale’. To do this requires learning how to access in-space resources, ‘at-scale’, to bypass all the constraints that apply to Earth-launch including mass and volume limits, launch site and launch cadence constraints, and resource demand, logistics, environment impact, and (importantly) political pushback.  

Deimos, the second and outer moon of Mars, is the most accessible, and one of the most mineralogically prospective, ‘target bodies’ in the solar system, and the question then becomes whether a mining and processing project exporting propellant to earth-and lunar space markets, might support a permanent, manned, profitable, self-sustainable operation, and a first human settlement, while leveraging the proposed SpaceX Mars settlement and advancing the economics of Earth-orbital space developments.  

Deimos Resource Recovery Proof - of - Concept & Sample Return Mission

Seek to define and if feasible develop, an expanding, large-scale, manned, mining, and metallurgical /chemical processing operation on Deimos providing propellants and construction materials for Humanity’s self-sustaining Expansion Into Space.

Purpose of initial Scouting Mission is ‘to fly a Scout / Prospector Mission to Deimos, to obtain ‘ground truth’, by performing the first global hyperspectral / mineralogical mapping, and to test its prospectively as a resource object, and its potential for a future Resource Project, the success of which could be instrumental in opening space to Humanity.’

The late-mission phase will provide for landing followed by geotechnical plus chemical assay to obtain ground truth, and test work to trial volatiles release.

To (hopefully) confirm Deimos as a potential water resource and thus a possible target for a future commercial mining and processing project and operation to produce rocket propellant for export back into Earth-cislunar orbital markets.

Status Comment / Notes

Website was offline as of early 2024.

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