Planetoid Mines Company

Planetoid Mines is a privately owned mineral extraction services company who has patented a novel In-Situ Mining and In-Situ Resouce Utilization technology for terrestrial and off-world excavation operations.

Created: 2019-01-22

Updated: 2023-03-12

Founded
Country
2009
USA
Funding
$0.18M
Website
Planetoid Mines
Social
Planetoid Mines Company

Product/Service - Lunar Excavation Vehicle

Classification
Space Resources
Category
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
Resources - Asteroid Mining
Lunar Data Center Network
Cislunar Space Logistics
Fields
Moon
Lunar Rover
Raw Materials
Mining
Status
Early stage
First launch
2023

Planetoid Mines mission is to engineer and manufacture the latest aerospace propulsion technology and attach it to an asteroid capturing platform to redirect the asteroid back to Earth’s cislunar orbit for the extraction of raw materials used in the manufacturing of spaceports and spacecraft.

Primary focus is developing the core components of asteroid mining. Many of their instruments and tools will be compatible with mining applications on the lunar surface and on Earth. Planetoid Mines intends to have their first lunar prospecting rover ready to launch and land near the lunar south pole in 2022. They are developing their own powered descent and landing vehicle and have not yet announced a launch provider.

The first complete "in-situ resource utilization" technology on the market. Our self-contained system provides end-to-end continuous mining operations with multiple excavator heads, mineral concentration through beneficiation, a pyrometallurgy oven and thermal printing head. Using lunar surface minerals the system can print landing pads, extrude fused quartz rods, large antenna arrays, etc. ISRU platform designed to fit most lunar landers.

Planetoid Mines is introducing our Lunar Mining and Manufacturing Rover. Submitted to NASA's Break the Ice Challenge. Continuously excavates 190 kg/m of regolith producing 7.42 kg/m water and icy regolith producing 18.5 kg/m water. "Benny and the Jets" concentrates 25.9 kg/m of Iron particles and 7.4 kg/m Titanium. 20.3 kg/m of CaO is calcinated to limestone. 83 kg/m of SiO2 is further refined to semi-conductor grade.

New focus on our lead in the Cislunar Ecosystem for Space Logistics and Lunar Infrastructure, including four core areas (Cislunar Space Logistics, Lunar Data Center Network, Robotics + AI, and Lunar Facilities) that we will inherently develop on our path to fielding the first lunar facility.

Selected to proceed with manufacturing and construction of a Lunar Excavation Vehicle as part of NASA's Break The Ice Lunar Challenge.

Website was being reworked as of early 2023.

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