March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...investment, which shows us that goals that have not been reached by traditional space industry – serviced space, mining – could theoretically be accomplished by companies that use small spacecraft in their projects. Such companies are replacing space...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... that sought to permanently alter the characteristics of a planet by terraforming. It would also ensure that private companies seeking to mine celestial bodies do not sidestep voluntary guidelines in the hunt for profit. Some suggest that the reason...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... and use of outer space for peaceful purposes can be disregarded when it comes to national space operations Prospective mining of outer space resources, including those of asteroids and other celestial bodies, has become a new vector of development...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...that it strictly forbade such ownership. In 2009, asteroid mining company Planetary Resources was formed and rapidly brought this decades... and also creating completely new markets like asteroid mining and global Internet access. While there are still ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along with this...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
...Australia is a Mills cross design interferometer and a potential gold mine for FRB discoveries. The FRB pulse carries a fingerprint of... a Mills cross-design interferometer and a potential gold mine for FRB discoveries. This 50-year-old telescope has ...
