Jim Keravala

StellarWorld is the market-maker for the lunar era, aggregating infrastructure, standardizing access, and enabling the next phase of human expansion to the Moon.

OffWorld is enabling human settlement of space by developing a new generation of small, smart, learning industrial robots. We need a robotic workforce to do the heavy lifting: build landing pads, excavate underground habitats, extract water ice and materials, make drinkable water, breathable air and rocket propellant, manufacture basic structures and solar cells, produce electricity - in short, we need thousands of robots that could mine, manufacture and build on Moon, asteroids and Mars. We are building a robotic workforce for the solar system starting with large scale deployments in terrestrial industries.

Lunar Cities is building permanent infrastructure on the Moon from surface bases to underground districts. Secure your priority access to the cislunar economy.

TransPlanetary group of companies secures, structures, and distributes access to critical infrastructure capacity across the cislunar economy enabling the largest global supply chain mobilization in history.

The Moon Village Association is a global non-governmental organization advancing international cooperation in Moon exploration and utilization. With participants from more than 65 countries, MVA uniquely connects governments, space agencies, industry, academia, and the public to provide foundational development for the multitude of lunar activities to mobilize OffWorld for the benefit of all humankind.

The Global Mining Guidelines Group brings together stakeholders across the globe to leverage new technologies and practices such as autonomy and robotics to advance the field of mining to meet this century's critical mineral goals. As a member of the GMG Governance Committee, I am responsible for maintaining GMG's high standards of practice in its governance, recommending governance policies to the Board of Directors and reviewing evolving ByLaws and governance policies to meet those standards.

The New Space covers space entrepreneurship and innovation, highlighting the intersection of space science, engineering, policy, and business. As Associate Editor, I have the privilege of reviewing a range of proceedings and collaborating with authors and researchers to refine their work, enhancing clarity and impact. Maintaining the highest quality of submissions in the journey of opening the space frontier.

The International MoonBase Alliance (IMA) is an association comprised of leading scientists, educators, and entrepreneurs from space agencies and industries worldwide to advance the development and implementation of an international base on the Moon. The initial focus is establishing terrestrial analogs to improve operational and engineering understanding of lunar operations and requirements.

The SCC is dedicated to building a charter for the ultimate protection of humanity and millions of other terrestrial species by ensuring we build the migratory technologies and tools necessary for settlement in multiple in-space and planetary locations before the end of this century.

The Space Entrepreneurship and Investment Committee is an essential forum to promote dialogue among entrepreneurs, companies, government, and academia, focusing on economic innovation, private-public partnership, the diversification of the space economy. We are opening the space frontier and economic growth is the foundation for the development of cislunar space and the Moon, on behalf of all of humanity.

Identification and development of advanced concepts, science, technology, and systems that will support, enhance and enable the utilization of space resources on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere in space. Supporting development of concepts relating to Shackleton Energy Company's operational requirements.

The TRB Subcommittee on Commercial Space Transportation is established to scope the framework of planning, research, policy development and programmatics to successfully integrate commercial space transportation into the nation’s multi-modal transportation system. My role is particularly focused on the establishment of a balanced exo-atmospheric transport regulatory framework.

The Lifeboat Foundation is dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards the Singularity. By drawing together some of the world's most extraordinary thought leaders, the Foundation continues its mandate to defend humanity, My role support planning and guidance on space related strategies.

The Moon Village Association (MVA) has been recently created as non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Vienna. Its goal is the creation of a permanent global informal forum for stakeholders like governments, industry, academia and the public interested in the development of the Moon Village. The MVA fosters cooperation for existing or planned global moon exploration programs, be they public or private initiatives.

Establishing recommendations for an international framework for the governance of space resources.

The Vision of NSS is people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity. In order to meet this Vision, NSS has a Mission to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. As a member of the Board of Directors, I am responsible for supporting, executing and promoting this vision and helping to ensure that space settlement is begun and continues within our lifetimes.

The Moon Society seeks to inspire and involve people all over the world in the continued study and exploration of the Moon with the goal of accelerating the day when there will be civilian settlements on the Moon, making use of local resources through private enterprise both to support the pioneers themselves and to help alleviate Earth's stubborn energy and environmental problems.

There are billions of tons of water ice on the poles of the Moon. We are going to extract it, turn it into rocket fuel and create fuel stations in Earth's orbit. Just like on Earth you won't get far on a single tank of gas, what we can do in space today is straight-jacketed by how much fuel we can bring along from the Earth's surface. Our fuel stations will change how we do business in space and jump-start a multi-trillion dollar industry. We can achieve low transportation cost in space if fuel and materials are extracted and transported not from Earth but from a lower gravity well - the Moon. The prerequisite for scaling multiple civilization challenges is establishing extraction and manufacturing operations on the Moon and creating a lunar supply chain of fuel, materials and structures.

It is possible to solve critical global challenges of energy and desalinized water with a single off-world infrastructure within decades. Solar farms doubling as communications platforms in geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above Earth’s surface, is the cleanest, most efficient and most elegant way to supply 30TW of power to 10 billion people by 2075, whilst using excess power to desalinate water. Building this architecture will underpin global economic growth through to the 22nd century, elevate the lives of billions of people to come and open the solar system to a new golden age of exploration and settlement. The OffWorld Consortium of companies is playing its part to mobilize the industrial, financial and political structures necessary for humanity to achieve these objectives in a series of rigorously investable technology developments. These will enhance the 4th Industrial Revolution on Earth and expand our species OffWorld.

The space industry is dominated by politically driven space programs, lack of consistent data on bottlenecks and costs, minimal system standardization, no data on internal market chains, inefficient supply chains, government dominated customers and incumbent technology and operations. Planetary Management is building a data and analytics engine to form a platform to drive multiple sector disruptions including capitalizing whole programs, establishing a common-contract market place and developing standardization across the industry and build a thriving human civilization across the solar system.

Synthesis and mapping of over a dozen advanced technology streams with corresponding integration with leading edge institutions.

Appointed by the Governor of Hawai'i to serve for a two year tenure on the Board of PISCES, an international research center dedicated to the development of new technologies needed for operations on the Moon, Mars and other celestial bodies.

Advisory capacity in accelerating technologies for Thiel Foundation Fellows, who are some of the most capable, gifted and driven young leaders I've met. It is both humbling and a privilege to support them on their great journeys. Recall the genderquated words of Herman Melville (1850): "It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, it is only to be added in that case, that he knows them to be small."

Providing services and support to the members of AIAA to enhance educational activities, emplyoment opportunities and value creation in the aviation and space industries.

Supporting the implementation of advanced systems thinking and associative mapping for corporations, universities and institutions.

Establishing a terrestrial based mesh of interconnecting commercial telescopes for space debris monitoring.

Establishment of an internet start-up with first round venture funding. Responsible for corporate establishment, investor and client relations and for company development and strategy and technology oversight. Development of advanced dimensionally unbounded information spaces using advanced 3D data geometry.

Establishing new methods of genetic applications for optimized bacterial engineering.

Building out from space systems engineering and management to expand experience to include construction, shipping and transportation businesses, capital markets and program finance. Provided significant experience in international management and director level leadership roles.

SSTL has pioneered new markets with the development of its microsatellite technologies and is now recognized as a global leader in this field. Continued from CST as responsible for management of over a dozen SSTL launch programs including the world’s first commercial launch on Dnepr (former ICBM) in 1999. Additionally involved in the business and market development of new space programs for emerging space nations undertaking program bids, negotiation, marketing, regulatory affairs, insurances.

The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) is an international body concerning the mitigation and establishment of standards for space debris. The UK Space Debris Co-ordination Group is the independent UK organization coordinating UK debris activity as an independent body made of BNSC, DERA and industrial members. As part of the UKSDCG, we assessed debris mitigation focusing on potential nano and microsatellite debris proliferation.

Tasked by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs at the UNISPACE III Congress in Vienna to establish key recommendations for integration into the Vienna Declaration as the one of the Space Generation Forum founding members. The evolution into the Space Generation Advisory Council established an organisation with thousands of members in over 90 countries.

Starting out as an engineering analyst for government and commercial customers, established launch operations and integration for international clients for spacecraft launch to Low Earth Orbit aboard Russian and Ukrainian launch vehicles, operating from Moscow.

Experimental rocketry club developing flight airframes, avionics and advanced LOX / polyethylene hybrid rocket propulsion systems.

Performing quality assurance analysis of data retrieval systems integrated into industrial mainframe computers

Summer intern opportunity at Space & Missiles division undertaking aeronautics database migration.

At the earliest opportunity I joined BIS and became a volunteer in evenings after school helping out at events and lectures and manning the BIS library desk. This was an opportunity to meet inspirational thinkers, make friends and feast on countless space engineering reports and books.

Royal Air Force military training in cadet academy spanning several years of continuous military training. Achieved Open Range and Indoor Marksman status on multiple weapon platforms and gained experience exposure in armored vehicles, Sea King helicopters, scuba diving and amphibious craft. Gained pilot licenses for powered gliders (Venture Mk3) and single engine aircraft (Cessna). Youngest awardee of Lance Corporal rank for leadership and completed service as the senior Warrant Officer overseeing command responsibility of 300 cadets.