Overby Industries

An Ethical, Zero-Waste Roadmap to Sustainable Space Industry

Tagline:
Metals. Stone. Plastics. Fuels. Everything humanity needs — gathered beyond Earth responsibly and sustainably.

1. Executive Summary

Overby Industries is committed to building the resources backbone of a solar system economy without repeating the environmental damage caused by terrestrial extraction.

Through reusable shuttlecraft (Starlifter II), autonomous miner/refinery pods, and distributed In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) systems, we will deliver metals, aggregates, plastics, and fuels for space construction and expansion — with zero debris, zero waste.

Mission: To become the ethical steward of humanity’s industrial expansion into space.

2. The Problem

Earth’s industrial extraction is environmentally destructive and limited by finite resources.
Current space infrastructure costs are dominated by the mass of materials launched from Earth.
Space mining proposals risk repeating the same mistakes unless sustainability and reclamation are designed in from the start.

3. The Vision

Overby Industries will:

Extract metals from M-class asteroids (nickel, iron, PGMs).
Manufacture Ultra High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) and basalt composites from silicate-rich asteroids and lunar regolith.
Establish a Titan Moon Base for hydrocarbons → plastics, polymers, and fuels.
Provide propellants (H₂/O₂/CH₄) cracked from asteroid ice and CO₂.

✅ All operations operate under a Zero-Pollution, Zero-Waste Certification.
✅ Every residue (dust, slag, rock) is repurposed → shielding, bricks, aggregates.

4. Core Technologies

4.1 Starlifter II Shuttle

Fully reusable runway-landing spacecraft.
Hybrid propulsion:
- Ion thrusters (in space + Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion in atmosphere).
- Lorentz rail accelerators (boost maneuvers).
- MHD solar-wind dynamo for power & thrust.
Ionic liquids serve as propellant, electrolyte, and internal thermal shielding during reentry.

4.2 Autonomous Miner/Refinery Pods

Anchored drill rigs + expandable containment bag systems (based on NASA ARM concepts).
Zero-dust excavation.
In-situ refining: ingots, volatiles captured, slag→building materials.

4.3 Power Systems

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) reactor cores.
Graphene supercapacitors for burst thrust.
Aluminum-ion & ionic liquid batteries for safe, flame-proof energy storage.
Solar wind particle capture → “endless trickle power.”

4.4 ISRU Output Streams

Metals: Nickel, iron, PGMs.
Aggregates: Silicates → UHPC, basalt fiber composites.
Polymers: Titan methane/ethane → plastics.
Fuels: O₂, H₂, CH₄ → for depots & propulsion.

5. Ethical & Environmental Stewardship

Overby Industries sets the Space Zero-Waste Standard:

Containment-first mining: no dust, no orbital debris.
Reclamation Mode: every miner pod compacts residual material.
Closed-loop ISRU cycles: nothing is left behind.
Transparency: public certification of every mission.

“Humanity’s future in space will be sustainable — or it will fail.
Overby Industries ensures it will succeed.”

6. Roadmap Timeline

| Phase | Years | Milestones ||--------------|-----------|------------|| Foundations | 2030–2040 | Starlifter prototypes, Miner Pod testbeds, NEA mining demo || Industrial Pilot | 2040–2055 | Fleet of Starlifter II, lunar depots, first profitable asteroid resources || Expansion | 2055–2080 | UHPC structures in orbit, Mars staging post || Outer System | 2080–2100 | Titan Base, plastics and fuels economy || Civilization Scale | 2100+ | Full solar system closed-loop infrastructure, Overby Certification becomes global standard |

7. Market Opportunity

Trillions in metals (Ni, Fe, PGMs).
Orbital construction boom: stations, habitats, megastructures.
ISRU fuels in depots: reduces launch costs dramatically.
Plastics and polymers from Titan: off-Earth manufacturing supply chain.

8. Closing Statement

Overby Industries is not simply a mining company.

We are the infrastructure backbone for an interplanetary civilization.

Our operations will:

Move polluting industry away from Earth.
Create sustainable habitats built from asteroids.
Fuel fleets with resources drawn responsibly from Titan and beyond.

Investing in Overby Industries means investing in humanity’s sustainable expansion into the cosmos.

9. References

Asteroid Mining & Containment

Johnson, L., et al. (2014). Asteroid Redirect Mission: Concept Development. AIAA SPACE Conference.
NASA ARM Overview: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/asteroid-redirect-mission

Ion Propulsion & ABEP

Rayman, M. D., et al. (2007). Dawn: Exploring Vesta and Ceres. Acta Astronautica.
ESA (2018). First Tests of Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion. https://www.esa.int/...

Solar Wind Capture / Magnetosails

Janhunen, P. (2006). Electric Sail for Spacecraft Propulsion. Journal of Propulsion and Power.
NASA NIAC E-Sail Summary: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac

Ionic Liquids

Lozano, P. C. (MIT, 2010). Ionic Liquids in Electrospray Thrusters. Progress in Propulsion Physics.
Hayden, C. (2019). Ionic Liquids for Space Applications.

ISRU (Concrete, Fibers, Basalt)

Stark, J., et al. (1998). Basalt Fiber Reinforced Concrete for Lunar Construction.
Cesaretti, G., et al. (2014). Lunar 3D Printing with Regolith. Acta Astronautica.

Titan Hydrocarbons

Stofan, E. R., et al. (2007). The Lakes of Titan. Nature.
Lorenz, R. D. (2008). Physics of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Lakes.

Reusable Shuttles

Sierra Nevada Corp. Dream Chaser Spaceplane. https://www.sierranevcorp.com/space-exploration/dream-chaser-spaceplane/