April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
...-academising the subject, while its corporations ‘greenwash’ their way to space. All this is not to ignore the Artemis Accords (Principles for a Safe, Peaceful and Prosperous Future), which by November 2023 had been signed by 32 nations, but...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... system has significant potential in terms of useful power, first on the Moon and later on other planets The Artemis Accords - also entered into by Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, UAE, UK, Ukraine, South Korea and New Zealand...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... would have seemed impossible! Yet this is where we find ourselves today. As evidenced by the limited take-up of NASA’s Artemis Accords (see ROOM #28, 2021), it is no longer as easy to get universal acceptance for space-related laws as it was in 1967...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... anytime soon, but the country signed up to the US-led Artemis Accords in June 2021. Meanwhile, its neighbour Australia, having founded its... own space agency just four years ago, signed with Artemis in late 2020. As these new space agencies assess ...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... resources for commercial benefit, as evidenced by the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 and the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events such as India’s 2019 Shakti anti-satellite test (ASAT) and Russia’s alleged Kosmos-2543...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... opening of the frontier. From space resources laws to the recent Artemis Accords, some have shown real vision, and yet, as one of the authors of the Accords admitted, what they are putting down is merely the ‘floor’ for...
