August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...and reveal their plans. It soon became obvious that, even though there is profit involved in space resource utilisation, the proceeds from space resource activities are not expected to be anywhere close to the perceived extraordinary volume, at least...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
.... It also increases the risk for political friction between nations over the potential economic benefits of space resources. One of Planetary Resources’ targets is an X-type asteroid which may contain more platinum than has ever been mined on Earth...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... police’ exist with zero tolerance for the unauthorised possession of a controlled space resource The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a space museum that displays space artefacts, many of which are on loan from NASA. Following the resignation...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
...Sowers has now joined the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines as part of a newly created graduate programme in space resources. He holds a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and a PhD in Physics from the University of Colorado. Dr Sowers is a fellow...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... states: “A United States citizen engaged in commercial recovery of an asteroid resource or a space resource under this chapter shall be entitled to any asteroid resource or space resource obtained, including to possess, own, transport, use, and sell...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... under this chapter shall be entitled to possess, own, transport, use and sell the asteroid resource or space resource obtained in accordance with applicable law, including the international obligations of the United States. In February this year...
