February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... be addressed in terms of national legislation. New legislation in the US - known as the ‘Space Act of 2015’ - is focused on the space mining of asteroids rather than diverting dangerous space rocks from hitting Earth. With the US enacting this type...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
...to do, because of the appetite for risk. Confidence is growing but sometimes that confidence is misplaced, as with the case of space mining where a number of earlier invested companies have already failed. However, the venture community can take this...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., retrofit, and servicing, possible active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial air...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... many other vital resources. Space shields, space colonies, space-based clean energy systems, macro-engineering projects in space and much more are possible. We can also do much more than what is now known as ‘space mining’. The future here may...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... can be highlighted through the following hypothetical examples which we may expect to encounter in the near future. A space mining labourer living on a remote human colony situated on the Moon, who is low on funds, is presented with a new utilities...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... it comes to living on another planet or back on Earth? Commercial exploitation of space Commercial missions include space transport, space tourism and space mining. While commercial space exploration may seem more trivial than scientific exploration...
