Space Resources - Factories in Space

List of space resources, asteroid mining and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) commercial activities. Partial overlap with in-space manufacturing in case of producing and offering pure substances made in space.

Last updated: 2023-03-12. Entries: 69

Name	Products & Services	Category	Service Type	Field	Status	Oneliner
Airbus	ROXY	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	-	Development	Successfully demonstrated the production of oxygen and metals from simulated lunar dust (regolith) with the Airbus-invented process named ROXY (Regolith to OXYgen and Metals Conversion)
AMi Exploration (ARCA Space, Asteroid Mining Program)	Asteroid Mining Spacecraft	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Cargo Transport Service, In-Space Transportation	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining, Transport Service (Re-Entry)	Mining	Development	The Asteroid Mining Program (AMi) is a ten-year program that aims to unlock one of the largest sources of wealth in history, through profitable asteroid mining.
Asteroid Initiatives		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting	Concept	Before you can do asteroid mining, you have to do asteroid prospecting.
Asteroid Mining Corporation	Asteroid Prospecting Satellite	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting, Mining, Database	Early stage	We are a space resources company currently developing robotic and satellite platforms to enable the exploration and extraction of off-world resources, including from asteroids.
AstroForge		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Asteroids, Mining, Beneficiation, Materials to Earth	Development	O ur mission is to make space resources accessible on Earth. We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
Astronika	GALAGO	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Space Mining, Commercial Rover	Hopper	Concept	Dedicated to providing innovative solutions to the broadly-defined aerospace industry. Energy-efficient regolith compactor for surface construction.
Astrum		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining	Dormant	We are developing the way to navigate and use a new necessity for life; Asteroids.
Aten Engineering		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Prospecting	Dormant	We are asteroid prospectors, mapping out the resources of near Earth space.
Austere Engineering	GROWLER	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining, Commercial Rover	Mining, Water ice, Prospecting, Lunar Rover	Concept	Austere Engineering of Littleton, Colorado, won third place and $50,000 for its Grading and Rotating for Water Located in Excavated Regolith (GROWLER) system, in Phase 1 of Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.
Beyond Atlas		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Prospecting	Early stage	We will build a cheap and reliable spacecraft to explore the solar system and find the resources to make it possible for humans to live in space.
BigDipper Exploration Technologies		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Prospecting	Early stage	Enabling access to the Lunar surface Data and Resources through Robots!
Blue Asteroids	Blue Wonder Spacecraft	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Prospecting, Mining, Materials to Earth	Concept	Aiming to mine asteroids for their natural resources and bring humanity closer to becoming a spacefaring civilization.
Canadian Space Mining Corporation		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Moon, Mining, Prospecting	Early stage	Canadian Space Mining Corporation is devoted to exploration and extraction of space bound resources.
Caterpillar		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Moon	Concept	Construction giant Caterpillar hopes to one day bring its autonomous mining technology to one of the universe's most sought after mining locations: the moon.
CisLunar Industries	Space Foundry	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Space Debris Utilization	Material Recycling	Development	Developing the Space Foundry, an in-space processing and refining capability for structural materials, such as metals.
Crow Industries		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Space Tug	Transport Service (LEO-Moon), ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Space Tug, In-Space Logistics	In-Space Transportation, Transport Service (In-Space), Transport Service (LEO-GEO)	Concept
Darkoob	Lightweight Pressurized Chamber (LEXICON)	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Mining	Concept, Dormant	Safe, sustainable and economical resources extraction from celestial bodies.
Deep Space Industries	Xplorer, Prospector-1	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Tug, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Prospecting	Dormant	Deep Space Industries (DSI), a company founded to pursue asteroid mining, but which more recently has focused on deep space smallsats.
Deltion Innovations		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	-	Dormant	We develop mining technologies and robotics for the resource sector.
Diatomic Space		In-Space Manufacturing, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Commercial Rover	Moon	Early stage	Diatomic Space is developing hardware to produce oxygen on the lunar surface.
Eta Space	H2RENEW	Raw Resources & Utilities	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Raw Resources, Resources - Hydrogen, Propellant Refilling, Propellant Refuel Station	Hydrogen	Early stage	Based on a proprietary electrochemical platform, SKYRE will electrolyse the ice water into its hydrogen and oxygen components and Eta Space H2RENEW™ will then compress and liquefy the hydrogen for use as fuel.
Ethos Space		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	Geoengineering, Propellant Refilling, Propellant Refuel Station, Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Moon, Mining, Prospecting, Planetary Sunshade	Development	If you believe in a coming space economy, the greatest commercial opportunity is in-space propellant refueling. Our vision is to build a planetary sunshade to protect Earth.
Exoterra	Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester (NIMPH)	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Oxygen, Hydrogen, Propellant	Dormant	The Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester (NIMPH) is a CubeSat-scale In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) system which processes ice into liquid oxygen (LOx) and liquid hydrogen (LH2).
Exponential Deep Space		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Prospecting	Dormant	In-Situ Resource Utilization for Exponential Growth of Deep Space Industries.
Hanwha Systems		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Space Resources	-	Development	Hanwha Aerospace became the first South Korean space company to win government approval to utilize resources in space, such as on the moon and Mars.
Helios		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Oxygen, Resources - Metal	Raw Materials	Development	HELIOS is developing technologies to extract metals and oxygen from the martian and lunar soil, providing essential materials for space missions.
Honda Motor Co		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Space Resources, Resources - Energy, Space Robotics, Robotic Arm	Moon	Development	Building a circulative renewable energy system on the lunar surface by leveraging Honda fuel cell technologies and high differential pressure water electrolysis technologies.
Insistent Galactic Operations (iGO)		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Water	Early stage	To help harvest and cultivate the infinite resources in space, utilizing those resources to both further space exploration and benefit all life on Earth and in Space.
Interstellar Mining		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Raw Resources, Space Mining	Water, Water ice, Mining	Early stage	Focused on developing and deploying the first robotic water mining operation on the Moon before 2024.
Karman+		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Asteroids	Development	We want to provide abundant energy and resources that are carbon neutral and sustainable by mining near-earth asteroids. We are developing the technology to survey, prospect and mine near earth asteroids.
Lunar Resources Registry		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Database, Registry, Moon	Development	The Lunar Resources Registry (LRR) enables commercial and non-commercial organisations to acquire rights to explore and extract resources.
Lunar Water Supply Company		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Water, Moon	Early stage	We provide a clean and reliable source of water from the Moon, for use in off-earth applications. The extraction, purification, and storage of water on the Moon is our business.
Masten Space Systems (Rocket M, Astrobotic)	Rocket M	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining, Water ice	Concept	D eveloping a robotic rover called Rocket M that could one day mine water on the Moon using rocket blasts.
May Marom		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Moon	Dormant	Uses microwave based technology to extract humidity and other volatiles from rock, regolith and permafrost planetary soil.
Metalysis	The Metalysis FFC Process for Extra-Terrestrial Oxygen Production from ISRU	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), In-Space Manufacturing, Resources - Metal, Resources - Oxygen	Metal, Oxygen	Development	The Metalysis FFC Process for Extra-Terrestrial Oxygen Production from ISRU.
Minespace		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Raw Resources & Utilities	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Hydrogen, Mining	Early stage	Minespace designs, manufactures and uses an asteroid-mining spacecraft to acquire fuel (hydrogen) to fasten space missions, boost space infrastructure and achieve human sustainability.
Moonrise Mining		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	-	Dormant	Our business is to provide space related minerals and their by-products for use to the inhabits of the Earth and beyond.
NEADL (Near Earth Asset Discovery Labs)		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting	Early stage	Prospecting firm in the nascent asteroid mining industry. Our goal is to accurately identify near-earth asteroids that are rich in natural resources and, therefore, worth mining. We place a specific emphasis on locating water-rich asteroids.
Neamine		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Resources, Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Asteroids, Prospecting, Mining	Early stage	Neamine aims to exploit the rare metal resources found on near-Earth asteroids.
NEORA Resource Atlas		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting, Database	Dormant, Early stage	Dedicated service to observe and categorise NEOs.
New Rocket Technologies	VentureMiner	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Asteroids	Dormant, Concept	The idea of spacecraft is integrating all systems (especially power) between themselves for greater efficiency of the whole system.
Northrop Grumman	Space Junk Recycler	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), In-Space Manufacturing	Material Recycling	Development	Solar refinery to recycle space debris. the system would have the ability to vaporize small existing space debris; recycle and recover manufacturing materials from existing satellites; and even perform in-space manufacturing of structural elements for new satellites.
Odysseus Space	ASTRAEUS, CYCLOPS	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Prospecting	Early stage	Long-term plan of prospecting asteroids for space resources exploitation and utilization.
OffWorld	Surveyor, Excavator, Collector, Hauler, Dozer	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Commercial Rover, Space Mining	Mining, Moon, Lunar Rover, Prospecting	Development	Sourcing precious materials on Earth and in space using swarms of intelligent robots.
Orbit Recycling		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Space Debris Utilization	Material Recycling	Early stage	Space debris is transported from the orbit to the Moon and recycled there. More than 150 tons of aluminium can be regained from Ariane 5 upper stages alone.
Origin Space	NEO-X	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting, Mining	Development	P lans a moon mission named NEO-2. A future “NEO-X” spacecraft would eventually attempt to capture a small asteroid.
Oshkosh Corporation		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining, Water ice	Concept	R eceived $25,000 in Phase 1 of the NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge in 2021.
OxEon Energy	Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOXE)	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Moon, Propellant, Water ice	Demonstrated	OxEon Energy has worked with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the successful development of an SOEC stack destined for oxygen production aboard the Mars 2020 Rover.
Pioneer Astronautics (Voyager Space Holdings)	Extraterrestrial Metals Processing (EMP)	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Raw Materials	Development, Acquired	The Extraterrestrial Metals Processing (EMP) system produces iron, silicon, and light metals from Mars, Moon, or asteroid resources in support of advanced human space exploration.
Planetary Resources	Arkyd	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining	Prospecting, Mining	Cancelled	Providing Resources to Fuel Industry and Sustain Life in Space.
Planetoid Mines Company	Lunar Excavation Vehicle	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Resources - Asteroid Mining, Lunar Data Center Network, Cislunar Space Logistics	Moon, Lunar Rover, Raw Materials, Mining	Early stage	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.
Regolithix		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Propellant Refuel Station, Propellant Refilling	Propellant, Oxygen, Metal	Early stage	Our innovative regolith processing technology will establish us as the number one supplier of lunar resources for in-orbit manufacturing, refuelling, and habitation.
Seven Sisters (Fleet Space)		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Commercial Rover, Space Mining, Beyond-LEO Remote Sensing, Lunar Data Analytics	Prospecting, Lunar Rover	Early stage	The Australian lunar exploration mission to send nanosatellites and sensors to the Moon to search for accessible water. SEVEN SISTERS is a collaboration of Australian space, remote operations and resource exploration companies that has been established as a companion to the Artemis Moon to Mars mission.
Skyhaven (Reactive Innovations)		In-Space Manufacturing, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	In-Space Manufacturing, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Hydrogen, Methane	Development	NASA awarded a multi-year contract to Skyhaven to develop a hydrogen and methane separation unit for Martian processing.
Skyre		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Resources - Oxygen, Resources - Hydrogen, Raw Resources	Water ice, Water, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Propellant, Moon	Development	Based on a proprietary electrochemical platform, SKYRE will electrolyse the ice water into its hydrogen and oxygen components.
Solar System Resources Corporation		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Solar Power	Helium-3, Mining, Prospecting	Early stage	Solar Systems Resources Corporation is a space mining company that conducts localization, in-situ verification, and mining of space resources.
SolSys Mining		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	Beneficiation, Food for Space	Development	We are developing systems for beneficiation of raw materials to enable agriculture, construction and production in space. Space Resource Beneficiation & Exo-agriculture systems.
Space Applications Services	ALCHEMIST	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	-	Development	ESA’s Phase A/B1 study (ALCHEMIST) to specify and prototype the payload that will demonstrate ISRU on the moon by 2025.
Space Industries	LREV	ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Commercial Rover	Raw Resources, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Resources - Oxygen, Commercial Rover	Helium-3, Oxygen	Development	Developing the Lunar Resource Extraction Vehicle (LREV) to produce Helium-3 for use on Earth along with Hydrogen and Oxygen (water) for use on the Lunar surface and GIANT aerospace 3D printer.
Space Mining Technologies		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Oxygen, Commercial Rover, Raw Resources	Propellant, Water	Early stage	Your water and fuel station on the Moon. We provide critical resources and technologies enabling sustainable space exploration and future settlements of the Moon and Mars.
SpaceGold		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Raw Resources & Utilities	Space Resources, Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining, In-Space Manufacturing	Asteroids, Metal	Early stage	SpaceGold Corporation is an off-world mining that engineers high TRL hardware solutions to commercially and autonomously mine asteroids for precious metals. We engineer proven commercial asteroid mining drones.
Takasago Thermal Engineering		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Resources - Oxygen	Moon	Development	Aiming to utilize ispace’s lunar lander to send an experimental payload to the Moon in 2023—on HAKUTO-R’s second mission—targeting to conduct the first-ever water-splitting experiment on the Moon.
Team AA-Star		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining, Water ice	Concept	Received $25,000 in Phase 1 of the NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge in 2021.
Team LIQUID		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining, Water ice	Concept	Received $25,000 in Phase 1 of the NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge in 2021.
Terra Engineering		Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Space Mining, Resources - Asteroid Mining	Mining, Water ice	Concept	Received $25,000 of Phase 1 of the Break the Ice Lunar Challenge in 2021.
Terraxis	VaPRe	Raw Resources & Utilities, ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Metal, Oxygen	Early stage	The VAPRE is a unique reactor capable of superheating materials, such as lunar regolith, to temperatures up to 3000 C, allowing for the extraction of many valuable elements from simple raw materials.
Thales Alenia Space UK		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining, Raw Resources & Utilities	In-Space Manufacturing, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	Moon	Development	The compact payload will need to extract 50-100 grams of oxygen from lunar regolith.
Vor-TechX		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	Resources - Asteroid Mining	Prospecting	Early stage	Vor-TechX is dedicated to Space Exploration, Education and Resource Harvesting.
Vulcan Aerospace		ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining	ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)	-	Dormant	Specialize in practical ISRU applications for use both on and off Earth.

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