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...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
... 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...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... 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...
