The presentation will describe civil engineering processes using autonomous robotics for excavation and site preparation for constructing a lunar landing pad.  A concept of operations for landing pad construction is presented, centered around a regolith melting and brick placement technology being developed by San Antonio based Astroport Space Technologies. Inc.  Additional technologies in development by Astroport for habitat and lunar infrastructure construction are also discussed.

Sam Ximenes is a Space Architect with over 30 years’ experience in the aerospace industry with NASA, DoD, and international space programs. He is currently CEO of Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), a space architecture consulting firm he founded in 2007. The firm specializes in commercial spaceport development and design, and space systems development for space exploration initiatives for planetary surface systems for habitation and human settlement He is also Founder and Board Chair of WEX Foundation, a non-profit organization for advancing careers in space exploration through SpaceSTEM education. His latest venture is CEO of Astroport Space Technologies, Inc., founded in 2020 as a wholly owned subsidiary of XArc to develop lunar construction technologies for emplacement of critical elements of lunar surface infrastructure.