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Now shipping: Comet-1TM water thrusters for LEO constellation spacing Full LEO spacecraft Asteroid simulants

In development: Prospector-1 for deep space

Propulsion | Spacecraft | Simulants

Comet-1 electrothermal thruster

Launch safe: inert propellant at very low pressure, easy to approve for secondary launches

Shipped fueled via UPS to launch site or integration facility

Higher performance than compressed gas without the high cost of monoprop or biprops

Comet-1 (2U)

HawkEye 360

• DSI is prime contractor for satellite constellation

• Broadband RF detection and geolocation

• First three spacecraft being assembled for Q1 2018 launch

• DSI enabling technology: Comet water thruster

High Fidelity Simulants

NASA SBIR Phase 2 Contract • Delivering five tons over 2 years in cooperation with UCF

Four types of Carbonaceous Chondrite regolith • CI simulant in March (based on Orgueil meteorite)

• CR simulant this month (based on suite of CR2 meteorites)

• CM simulant fall 2017 (based on Murchison meteorite)

• C2 simulant winter 2017 (based on Tagish Lake meteorite)

Documented Sources….

…from mines & labs. With stockpiles

Enclosed Crushing Room

Dust containment is constant battle

Enclosed Crushing Room

Dust containment is a constant battle

Measuring and Mixing

High-Capacity Air Cleaners

Drying and Shipping

500kg CI to NASA in March 500kg CR to NASA in 3 weeks

Availability

1. Unmixed Powders 2. Ready-to-Prepare Mixed Powders 3. Regolith – range of particle sizes 4. Slabs / Cobble 10 kg (powder) - $250 10 kg (regolith) - $300 Discounts for larger quantities

Prospector-1 / Micro-spacecraft asteroid mission • Primary (science) objective:

survey target of interest, demonstrate deep space mission capability

• Launched to LEO as secondary payload

• Target selected for relatively short cruise and close-to-Earth operations

• DSI-developed high-thrust propulsion for Earth departure

• DSI-developed Comet water thrusters for cruise, rendezvous and prox ops

• X-band TT&C for absolute navigation, optical relative navigation

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Water Mapping • Science campaign begins at stationkeeping range, incrementally

closer distance

• VIS/MWIR imagery for pictures and surface water mapping (hydrated salts and –OH bearing silicates in regolith)

• Neutron spectrometry for measuring local subsurface hydrogen abundance

• Co-registration of imagery and neutron measurements at increasingly close range to identify regions of interest

Landing Attempt • At end-of-life, Prospector-1 will attempt to land at site of interest

• Demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations hardware and

algorithms

• Will use instrumented landing legs to evaluate geotechnical characteristics of regolith

Lastly: • Will assert a commercial presence at the asteroid, advancing the discussion

of how industry should harvest space resources

Stephen Covey Director, Research & Development Simulants Stephen.Covey@

Peter Stibrany Chief Business Developer & Strategist Thrusters & Spacecraft Peter.Stibrany@

DeepSpaceIndustries.com

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CI Simulant - Elemental composition

Element Target wt % Actual wt %

Fe - Iron 18.95% 16.24%

Si - Silicon 10.64% 11.18%

Mg - Magnesium 9.62% 13.54%

S – Sulfur 5.25% 4.19%

C - Carbon 3.22% 3.85%

H - Hydrogen 2.02% 1.67%

Elements < 1% ~4% 2.98%

O Oxygen Balance Balance

CI Simulant - Mineralogical composition

Mineral Weight % Notes

Antigorite 48.0% A serpentine mineral, (Mg,Fe++)3Si2O5(OH)4

Epsomite 6.0% Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate – MgSO4*7H2O

Magnetite 13.5% Iron Oxide – Fe3O4 (actually present 14.5%)

Attapulgite 5.0% AKA palygorskite, (Mg,Al)2Si4O10(OH)·4(H2O)

This clay binds strongly without swelling/shrinking

Olivine 7.0% Magnesium Iron Silicate – (Mg0.9Fe0.1)2SiO4

Pyrite 6.5% Iron Sulfide (FeS2)

Vermiculite 9.0% A smectite-group clay (Mg,Fe,Al)3(Al,Si)4O10(OH)2 - 4H2O

Coal 5.0% Sub-bituminous coal is a kerogen substitute