July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...and profitable future in space-based commerce. Off-Earth mining, space tourism, and the vast range of services...power for every person on our planet. Resources: although most resources mined in space, whether from asteroids, the Moon, or elsewhere, are...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... show promising prospects for exploitation of natural resources on the Moon and asteroids. Although reliable technologies and mining processes still need to be fully developed, private companies have been showing serious interest in such ventures for...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... public opportunities for growth and leveraging established industries to repurpose them for space – like new materials, mining to extract water, oxygen and inks to print spare parts, agriculture to grow food in inhospitable terrain, space object...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... level of completeness Local resources would need to be mined and used to build machines and habitable infrastructure and ...the prospect of isolated scientific outposts, human-tended mining operations and centres for extreme adventure tourism. Since...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... space-based solar power matures into reality, asteroids are mined for rare metals, and fuel is produced in space ...future space reality – Moon colonisation, space tourism, asteroid mining, Mars inhabitance and other space-based activity. A significant...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... the development time of what can otherwise be long-timescale missions. Planetary Resources’ concept for asteroid mining. With development of spacecraft able to perform asteroid rendezvous and resource assessment already underway, development time...
