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• Mines faculty, students work on technology that could "change space travel forever"
  Mines researchers are partnering with Lunar Outpost to compete in the NASA Break the Ice Challenge.
• Mines team advances to finals in NASA Watts on the Moon Challenge
  Two Colorado School of Mines graduate students are finalists in NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, a competition to design and create a system to distribute, manage and store energy on the Moon’s surface. Ken Liang and Chris Tolton, both pursuing an MS in Space Resources, teamed up for the challenge, and of the four […]
• University team from Poland wins second annual Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
  For the challenge, teams had to demonstrate the prototype systems they designed and built to move lunar regolith – or moon dust – from one area to another while also sorting out larger rocks from the finer particles
• Five teams from around the world to compete in second Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
  What’s the best way to transport dirt on the Moon? University students from around the world have been considering this challenge for months. Working versions of their solutions will be on display May 31-June 1 at Colorado School of Mines.
• 3000-pound NASA balloon payload, prepared at Mines, now in shipment to New Zealand for launch
  “The complexity and scope of this mission is a good demonstration of the breadth of research going on in the Physics Department and at Mines as a whole,” Professor Lawrence Wiencke said.
• Colorado School of Mines, Lunar Outpost reach Level 2 of NASA’s Break the Ice Challenge
  Colorado School of Mines and Lunar Outpost are teaming up to build a lunar excavation rover, the Outpost Digger System (ODS). This rover will be capable of excavating nearly 1 ton of concrete-hard lunar regolith per Earth day. The ODS is a configuration of Lunar Outpost’s next generation medium-class rover platform. Today NASA announced that […]
• Colorado School of Mines, Lockheed Martin launch 2023 Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
  The global student design competition addresses a topic of increasing practical concern as humans move toward a sustainable presence on the Moon’s surface — how to move lunar soil, or regolith.
• Six international teams descend on Mines campus for Over the Dusty Moon Challenge
  A new frontier in lunar technology will be on display June 2-3 in a parking lot on the edge of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
• Space Resources students take second, third place in NASA Break the Ice Challenge
  “For Mines to win the medal count really cements our position in this industry,” Professor George Sowers said. “The team that won the overall prize was a pretty large aerospace corporation – we had graduate students that went toe to toe with a professional company.”
• Mines, Lockheed Martin to host Over the Dusty Moon student design challenge
  Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with Lockheed Martin Space, announce a new global student design challenge open to student teams from any accredited university worldwide.