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Filings, partnerships, and progress on the fleet, dated and written by the people doing the work.
Resource or celestial body? The question we asked at Constitution Day
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iGO files expression of interest for the Office of Space Commerce certification pilot
On September 9, 2026, iGO submitted its expression of interest for the Office of Space Commerce "Space Commerce Certification" pilot. The Office confirmed receipt on September 10.
iGO sponsors the XXV Space Resources Roundtable
The 25th Space Resources Roundtable met at the Colorado School of Mines on June 3 to 6, 2025. iGO was a sponsor, alongside Lunar Outpost, Honeybee Robotics, Astroscale, Interlune, ESRIC and others.
What we learned from our first NASA STTR
In March 2024, iGO and Oral Roberts University submitted a NASA STTR Phase I proposal for an Intelligent Space Resource Prospecting System. It was not selected. The reviewers' feedback became the blueprint for iSEE.
iGO at the Space Resources Roundtable XXIV
The twenty-fourth Space Resources Roundtable met at the Colorado School of Mines in June 2024, iGO's third consecutive year.
iGO takes tenancy at Infinity One, Oklahoma's spaceport
On December 1, 2023, iGO became a tenant of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority at Burns Flat, taking offices 1F and 1G in the Air Traffic Control Tower, two empty rooms at the base of a tower on the flattest land in Oklahoma.
iGO at the Space Resources Roundtable XXIII
The twenty-third Space Resources Roundtable met at the Colorado School of Mines in June 2023, opening with a tribute to Brad Blair.
The first Intertribal Space Conference
From November 15 to 17, 2022, I attended the first Intertribal Space Conference in Clinton, Oklahoma, met Craig Smith, and toured the spaceport for the first time.
iGO at the Space Resources Roundtable XXII
The twenty-second Space Resources Roundtable met at the Colorado School of Mines in June 2022. It was the first SRR I attended, and where I met Brad Blair.
Returning to the Moon, and meeting Mark Sundahl
On March 6, 2020, I attended Returning to the Moon at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where I first met Prof. Mark J. Sundahl, now iGO's Chief Legal Advisor.
iGO at the 70th International Astronautical Congress
The 70th IAC met in Washington, DC in October 2019. I booked the flight at the last minute, a month after naming the company and three months before starting at Mines.
Finding the name and the logo
The name came first. On September 25, 2019, my father's birthday, I filed it with the state. insistent Galactic Operationz, and a logo drawn by two artists.
Getting into the Space Resources program at Mines
A link from Ethan Berney pointed me to the graduate program in Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines. I was accepted on July 12, 2019.
The dream is free
In April 2018, weeks from graduating, I told my entrepreneurship professor at the University of Kansas that I wanted to mine asteroids. He said he loved it, and that it would take a lot longer than I thought.