A Institute has sponsored locate studies in many shipping systems for the development of space. Their number 1 program was in the development of image mass driver systems. It is likewise researching a utilise of an Orbital Transport Vehicle as a component of space manufacturing. More areas of locate include the seek for Globe-Sun Trojan asteroids, the project survey of a Lunar Polar Probe to seek for water supply & utile volatiles at a poles of the Moon, and studies of reuse of the Space Shuttle external tank. Dr O'Neill performed the pioneering survey of the big space home ground known as ''Island Three that could home 140,000 population.

Conferences
SSI began hosting the bi-biyearly Space Manufacturing Conference in 1977, although the conference got actually begun within 1974. A themes of the late conferences were when follows:

Seventh — Engineering by having Lunar & Asteroidal Materials, 1985. Eighth — Nonterrestrial Resources, Biosciences, & Space Engineering, 1987. Ninth — Space Resources to Improve Life olympic games, 1989. 10th — Energy & Materials from either Space, 1991. Eleventh — A High Frontier, Accession, Development & Utilization, 1993. Twelfth — Pathways to the High Frontier, 1995. Thirteenth — A Challenge of Space: Past & New, 1997. Fourteenth — Challenges & Chance inside Space, 1999. Fifteenth — Subsiding Circumsolar Space'', 2001.