Sensitivity of Lunar Resource Economic Model to Lunar Ice Concentration

Details Sensitivity of Lunar Resource Economic Model to Lunar Ice Concentration Sensitivity of Lunar Resource Economic Model to Lunar Ice Concentration

Jan 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002mbns.conf....4b&link_type=abstract

The Moon Beyond 2002: Next Steps in Lunar Science and Exploration, p. 4

Physics

Hydrogen, Lunar Mining, Ice, Propellants, Space Commercialization, Lunar Prospector, Cost Estimates

Scientific paper

Lunar Prospector mission data indicates sufficient concentration of hydrogen (presumed to be in the form of water ice) to form the basis for lunar in-situ mining activities to provide a source of propellant for near-Earth and solar system transport missions. A model being developed by JPL, Colorado School of Mines, and CSP, Inc. generates the necessary conditions under which a commercial enterprise could earn a sufficient rate of return to develop and operate a LEO propellant service for government and commercial customers. A combination of Lunar-derived propellants, L-1 staging, and orbital fuel depots could make commercial LEO/GEO development, inter-planetary missions and the human exploration and development of space more energy, cost, and mass efficient.

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