...future are presented in the ‘resources chart’. Yet the prospect of space mining can provide new options. A modest...are a number of efforts underway to seek to clarify the future prospects for space mining activities - whether they might be national or ...
... danger and thus hopefully induce more immediate action by States, without necessarily foregoing the longer-term prospective approach with a focus on environmental stability. The cited reactionary tendency of the law can be said, in some sense...
...shift from one party to another. There will be two main types of exploration, namely commercial and scientific prospecting. However, scientific operations such as radio astronomy, which earns no revenue, would be at a disadvantage. They too will have...
... Outpost, to collect a small sample of lunar regolith, which the company will collect with its Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP. The samples will then be sold directly to NASA in a first of its kind transaction. Other winning...
... raising phase. They are testing and proving technology, and may be flying small-scale satellites to conduct prospecting operations - identifying and characterising potential mining targets. Legislation and access Like most areas of economic activity...
...’, 2015) showed that at least 30 candidates must be characterised in order to infer statistically meaningful conclusions about the prospects for biological life on other planets. The same analysis revealed that telescope aperture diameter is the most...