Venue: the University of Tokyo’s HASEKO KUMA HALL
Date: November 23–24, 2025
Space Resources Initiative (SRI) is an international meeting hosted by the Center for Space Resources and Innovation (CSRI), University of Tokyo, designed to foster broad discussions on science, technology, institutions, and related aspects of space resources.
SRI I was held on July 1 in Jimbocho, Tokyo, as a pre-event prior to the official establishment of CSRI.
SRI II, marking the official launch of CSRI, will feature mainly invited speakers.
For participation, please also register via the designated form. Onsite attendance is encouraged, though online participation will also be available.
Title submission and registration
Please use this link for the registration.
All attendees, both onsite and online, are required to register. No registration fee will be required.
The online participation link will be sent to registered participants by email at a later date.
Schedule
Oct. 1, 2025: Call for Titles and Registration opens
Nov. 10, 2025: Deadline for title submission
Nov. 17, 2025: Final program announced
Nov. 23–24, 2025: Space Resources Initiative II (Tokyo, Japan)
Program:
| Day 1: November 23 (Sun) | ||||
| Registration & Coffee (09:30-10:00) | ||||
| Opening Session — Setting the Stage for a Global Network (10:00-10:50) | Chair: Hirdy Miyamoto | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 10:00 | Tetsuya Ishida | Vice Dean, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Welcome | |
| 10:05 | Hirdy Miyamoto | Director, Center for Space Resource Innovation | Opening Remarks & CSRI Vision | |
| 10:20 | Angel Abbud-Madrid | Director, Center for Space Resources, Colorado School of Mines | Keynote: A Global Perspective on Space Resource Research and Education | |
| 10:35 | John Culton | Director, ATCSR, University of Adelaid | Keynote: Building Capability for Sustainable Operations Beyond Earth | |
| Frontier Lectures in Planetary and Resource Science (10:50-11:35) | Chair: Hirdy Miyamoto | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 10:50 | Laszlo Kestay | International Lunar Resource Prospecting Campaign | Selecting Safe Places for Lunar Ice Exploration | |
| 11:05 | Erik Asphaug | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona | From Planetesimals to Asteroids | |
| 11:20 | Seiji Sugita (online) | School of Science, The University of Tokyo | Bridging Planetary Science, Planetary Defense, and Resource Utilization | |
| Lunch Break (11:35-13:00) | ||||
| Key Industrial Missions — New Frontiers in Commercial Exploration (13:00-13:50) | Chair: John Culton | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 13:00 | Takeshi Hakamada | Founder & CEO, ispace, inc. | Commercial Lunar Missions and the Emerging Lunar Economy | |
| 13:15 | Daynan Crull | Co-Founder, Karman+ | High Frontier: A Private Asteroid Resource Mission | |
| 13:30 | Atsuta Keishi | COO, Interstellar Technologies Inc. | ZERO Mission — Reaching Orbit for Space Resources and Beyond | |
| 13:40 | Tetsuya Honda | Chief Technology Officer, Space BD Inc. | i-SEEP: IVA – replaceable Small Exposed Experiment Platform Overview | |
| Coffee Break (13:50-14:00) | ||||
| Emerging Technologies and Industrial Frontiers (14:00-15:00) | Chair: Angel Abbud-Madrid | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 14:00 | Patrick “Paddy” Neumann (online) | Founder and Chief Scientist, Neumann Space Pty Ltd | Metallic Propellant ISRU: A Strength of Cathodic Arc Thrusters | |
| 14:10 | Takayoshi Machida | DigitalBlast | Space Edge Computing: Expanding Orbiting Data Centers in Space | |
| 14:20 | Shuichi Ichimura | KDDI Corporation, Strategy Lead on Space Business and Technology | Development of Lunar Communications for Artemis Program | |
| 14:30 | Louis Burtz | JAOPS Co-Founder | Operating Lunar Rovers with Open-source Mission Control Tools | |
| 14:40 | Hiroshi Uchiyama | SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation | Prospective Communications and Data Intelligence for Space Exploration Missions | |
| 14:50 | Lena Okajima | Founder & CEO, ALE | From Artificial Meteors to Asteroid Science: ALE’s Ejection Technology and the Apophis Opportunity | |
| Coffee Break (15:00-15:15) | ||||
| European and International Perspectives on Space Resources (15:15–16:10) | Chair: Erik Asphaug | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 15:15 | Jens Biele (online) | Senior Staff Scientist, DLR German Aerospace Center | Greetings and Comments from the German Aerospace Center | |
| 15:30 | Kathryn Hadler (online) | Director, ESRIC – Luxembourg | Europe’s Innovation Strategy for Space Resources (online) | |
| 15:45 | Patrick Michel (online) | Senior Researcher, CNRS / Côte d’Azur Observatory | Asteroid Science and Planetary Defense Synergies (online) | |
| 16:00 | Discussion (10 min) | |||
| Global Collaboration and Future Directions in Space Resource Research (16:10-17:10) | Chair/Moderators: Erik Asphaug | |||
| Panelists: Angel Abbud-Madrid / John Culton / Kathryn Hadler / Hirdy Miyamoto | ||||
| Summary and Closing Remarks (17:10-17:30) | ||||
| Evening — Informal Dinner & Networking | ||||
| Day 2: November 24 (Mon.) | ||||
| Morning Coffee (09:15-09:30) | ||||
| Legal and Policy Perspectives for Space Resources (09:30-10:00) | Chair: Angel Abbud-Madrid | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 9:30 | Setsuko Aoki | Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology | Ownership issues on space resources | |
| 9:40 | Yuri Takaya | Institute for Future Initiative, The University of Tokyo | Legal Issues on the Use of Cislunar Space including Lagrange Points | |
| 9:50 | Yu Takeuchi | Institute of Space Law, Keio University | Challenges of Space Law in the Era of Commercial Space Exploration | |
| Japan’s Space Resource Strategy and Research Networks (10:00-10:50) | Chair: Angel Abbud-Madrid | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 10:00 | Masakazu Sugiyama (online) | RCAST, The University of Tokyo | UTokyo R&D Site for Next-Generation Space Photovoltaics | |
| 10:10 | Tomokatsu Morota (online) | School of Science, The University of Tokyo | Lunar Infrastructure and Pressurized Rover Systems: A Science-Driven Approach | |
| 10:20 | Kazuto Saiki (online/video) | Earth and Space Exploration Center, Ritsumeikan University | Strategy for Building a Space Transformation (SX) Hub Leveraging the Space Strategy Fund | |
| 10:30 | Yasuko Kasai | School of Environment and Society, Institute of Science Tokyo | Towards a lunar subsurface resource map | |
| 10:40 | Daisuke Akita | NeSTRA | Mars Touch -Japan’s first Mars lander- | |
| Coffee Break (10:50-11:00) | ||||
| Space Resources SX and related Japan’s Networks (11:00-11:25) | Chair: Hirdy Miyamoto | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 11:00 | Yoshiaki Kawakami | Takasago Thermal Engineering Co.,Ltd. Research & Development Center General Manager | R&D Activities by Takasago Thermal Engineering | |
| 11:05 | Akira Otsuki | Kurita Water Industries Ltd. | Kurita’s Activities for Space | |
| 11:10 | Taichi Ikenaga | Soil and Rock Engineering Co., Ltd. | Pioneering R&D in Radioisotope Technologies for Civil Engineering | |
| 11:15 | Hiroaki Meguro | JAXA | Japan’s proposed space exploration scenario and JAXA’s approach to ISRU | |
| 11:20 | Suzuna Okamoto | JAXA | JAXA’s Study of a Lunar ISRU Plant | |
| Lunch Break (11:25-13:00) | ||||
| Academic and Technological Frontiers at the University of Tokyo and SX (13:00-15:00) | Chair: Hirdy Miyamoto | |||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title | |
| 13:00 | Hiroyuki Koizumi | Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo | Water-Based Propulsion as an Enabling Technology for In-Situ Space Resource Utilization | |
| 13:10 | Ryu Funase (online) | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Prospects for Solar System Resource Exploration with Microsatellites | |
| 13:20 | Genya Ishigami | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University | RESiSToR: Robotic Excavation, Sieving, Sorting and Transport of Regolith for the Space Resources Era | |
| 13:30 | Fang Zheng | Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo | Low-Temperature Processing of Sand-Based Construction Materials with Potential for Lunar Construction Applications | |
| 13:40 | Shun Tanaka | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Next-Generation Manufacturing Technologies with Large-Scale Sensor Arrays: Toward Space Resource Utilization | |
| 13:50 | Takeshi Tsuji | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | From Apollo Seismic Data Reanalysis to Future Lunar Seismic and Subsurface Resource Exploration | |
| 14:00 | Shinsuke Murakami | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Sustainable Resource Governance: Earth-Based Circular Economy and Beyond-Earth Materials | |
| 14:10 | Kentaro Nakamura | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Origin of highly REE-rich mud: Possible relation to the ocean asteroid impact | |
| 14:20 | Kazutaka Yasukawa | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Frontier mineral resources for critical metals: Perspectives from geochemical and statistical analyses | |
| Break (14:30-14:40) | ||||
| 14:40 | Makito Kobayashi | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Lunar Dielectric Analyzer: Subsurface Permittivity Measurements for Space Resource Exploration | |
| 14:45 | Tomohiro Takemura | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Development and Characterization of Lunar, Martian, and Asteroidal Regolith Simulants | |
| 14:50 | Yuta Shimizu | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | AI-Based Rock Identification for Small-Body Surface Exploration | |
| 14:55 | Lucas-Brian Christen | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Turning Lunar Regolith into Metal: Thermal Processing for ISRU | |
| 15:00 | Yuna Isobe | School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Granular Behavior of Lunar and Asteroidal Regolith: Implications for Surface Operations | |
| 15:05 | Airi Toida | School of Science, The University of Tokyo | Laboratory Permittivity Characterization to Support Future Lunar and Small-Body Exploration | |
| Coffee Break & Networking (15:10-15:30) | ||||
| Applied Missions and Collaborative Frameworks (15:30–16:50) | Chair: John Culton | |||
| 15:30 | Anna Ma-Wyatt (online) | Director Astronaut Autonomy Teaming at the ATCSR | Off-Earth Human Operations Enabled by Autonomy | |
| 15:40 | Volker Hessel (online) | School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide | A circular biomass loop for Plants for Space, P4S, growing beans in lunar regolith | |
| 15:50 | Brendan Scott (online) | Director Lunar Geotechnics Group at the ATCSR | Civil Engineering on the Moon – Understanding Lunar Regolith for Construction Purposes | |
| 16:00 | Tat-Jun Chin (online) | School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide | Onboard Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Space Systems | |
| 16:10 | Scott Smith (online) | School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Adelaide | Advances in Lunar Construction Materials and Structures | |
| 16:20 | Pradyumna Vyshnav (onlne) | Co-Founder & CEO, Uncharted AI | From mines to Moon: Leveraging a decentralized multi-robot autonomy platform from terrestrial mineral exploration for lunar resource prospecting | |
| 16:30 | Mark Sonter (online) | Chairman, Off Earth Resources Pty Ltd | Findings from recent work: first commercial Space Resources Missions Can Now be Flown | |
| 16:40 | Yoshitaka Wakamoto | Aureon Space Systems Inc. | Asteroid mining, a proposal from a Japanese startup | |
| Closing Remarks (16:50-17:00) | Chair: Hirdy Miyamoto, John Culton, Angel Abbud-Madrid | |||