February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... outweigh the negatives. I left engineering because of the limited options in the county of Cornwall whilst other contemporaries of mine reluctantly left the county, even the country, to pursue their engineering careers. For me, giving Cornwall the...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... wealth from other worlds? Before an era can begin in which prosperity arises through in-situ resource utilisation - mining and production all taking place on or around the Moon - advances in scientific understanding of the Moon’s materials and...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... line. Be it the military already playing cat and mouse games in the silence above, to those who see mining the solar system’s resources as the next gold rush, to those who would use space to save our...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... sector, which includes the classical science missions but is increasingly likely to encompass applications such as prospecting and mining. Many companies and other organisations from more than a dozen different nations have expressed interest in the...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... age, public and private interests are both cooperating and competing to build permanent outposts on the Moon, mine planets and asteroids, and colonise Mars, all supposedly with the best of possible intentions - the salvation...
11 January 2016
Space Mining company showcase the first 3D printed object made from asteroid metals
... Planetary Resources, in a recent interview at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. Planetary resources is an asteroid mining company whose goal is to expand the economy of humanity into space through the use and pursuit of resources...
