ASTROPORT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES

ASTROPORT BUILDS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE MOON

Dust-Free Zones for Operation

Roads for Enhanced Surface Mobility

Landing Pads for Safe Landing

WHAT WE DO

Space
Materials

Space
Construction

Lunar Landing Port Operations

Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2020 as a technology venture arm and a subsidiary of Exploration Architecture Corporation. Astroport is developing patent-pending regolith solidification technologies for lunar infrastructure construction using 3D printing and autonomous robotics, with an initial focus on lunar landing pad emplacements.

HOW WE DO IT

Regolith Building Materials

Construction Materials

Bricks
Rebar
Fibers
Geotextiles/Construction Mesh
Glass

Regolith Refining Technologies

Minerals & Volatiles

Metals: Fe, Al, Ti, Mg
Minerals: Si, Ca
Trapped Gases (Oxygen, Helium-3)
Water

3D Printing and Placement

Lunatron™ Print System

TRL 4 – Concept
TRL 5 – Prototype
TRL 6 – Ground Test Unit Brickbot
TRL 7 – Flight Demo Unit Brickbot
TRL 9 – Operational Lunatron™

Geotechnical Site Preparation

Civil Engineering Process

Lunar Terrain Testbed
Interchangeable Tractor Tools
- Sieving
- Excavation
- Grading
- Compaction

WHO WE ARE

Sam Ximenes

Founder and CEO

Emilio De La Guardia

GM Astroport Europe

Vacant

GM Astroport Australia

Ron Wells

Chief Technology Officer

James Johnson

Adv. Eng. Projects

Don Hooper, PhD

Lunar Geology

Rey Trevino

Program Mgmt.

Natasha Heidenrich

Strategy

Louise Cantwell

Government Liaison

Bob Doyle

Master Ceramicist

Ken Kinsey

Senior Designer

Milton Cordova

Mechanical Engineer

Arjun Palat

Electrical Engineer

Kathryn Bolish

Mathematician

Advisory Board

Oscar Garcia

Air and Space Transportation Executive

John Hines

Fmr. NASA Chief Technologist

David Orner

Partner GlobalView Capital

Rob Kelso

Fmr. NASA Flight Mission Director

John Kucewicz

Geologist/Oil & Gas

Chris Packham, PhD

Astrophysicist, UTSA

Donna Potter

Space Technology Dev Exec.

Matt Redling

Business Dev Exec.

Larry Toups

Fmr. NASA Space Architect

NEWS

How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon

Astroport is working with researchers at the University of Texas, San Antonio, to invent an induction furnace nozzle that heats up lunar regolith so that it can melt, then solidify, into bricks. A number of specialized robots would then assemble the materials into...