October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...someone who couldn’t shake a guilty feeling that shadowed the prospect of human space exploration? Not exactly. Like most personal...and its replacement with a commercial space station. Though the prospect of the ISS’ end shakes me, I’m left wondering ...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
...shorthand for new technology developments that have broad economic prospects and impact. Serious investment in major space projects... the aluminium, titanium, and other resources, first prospected by the Apollo crews, and turning them into spaceships...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... future missions and continue to evolve cost-effective approaches for NASA. Three illustrations showing (1) how RP volatile prospecting would work during actual lunar roving, (2) the RP rover charging in the Sun and (3) excavating lunar regolith...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...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 ...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... 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...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
...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...
