Company - SolSys Mining
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Resources
- Category
- Resources - Asteroid Mining
Space Mining
In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Beneficiation
Food for Space
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
Resource Processing
We are developing systems for beneficiation of raw materials to enable agriculture, construction and production in space. Transporting materials from Earth into space has a high cost, and to enable future missions and settlements in space resources already in space should be utilized when possible. To use resources that already exist in space, new technologies for comminution, screening, sorting and separation will have to be developed.
Agriculture Systems
We are researching the use of lunar regolith for plant nutrients in space agriculture. Growing plants for food and oxygen in space will be critical for future long-term missions to the moon. Many valuable plant nutrients already exist in lunar regolith, and we are developing systems for extracting these nutrients to use for hydroponic agriculture. In addition we have developed our own 3d-printed hydroponic growth systems.