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...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
...’, 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...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...CO2) atmosphere in an attempt to become almost self-sustaining. The PROSPECT system concept and its functions. The need for ISRU In his...pole at the Aitken Basin. ESA is contributing the PROSPECT drill system to penetrate two metres down to collect ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...some of ESA’s simulants will be used for testing the PROSPECT drill and analysis system, due to fly in 2023 Some ...applications, some of ESA’s simulants will be used for testing the PROSPECT drill and analysis system, due to fly in 2023 aboard the Luna...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... resources on Earth are encouraging the search for such resources in outer space. Preliminary investigations show promising prospects for exploitation of natural resources on the Moon and asteroids. Although reliable technologies and mining processes...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...to the lunar surface. Bezos has his eye on prospecting for lunar mineral resources to construct the space colonies ...of nations delivered to the lunar surface, but in the prospecting missions launched by these countries and their corporations to the ...
