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...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
...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...
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...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
.... In line with the wishes of the companies, the first article of the Luxembourg legislation proclaims that all space resources are capable of being appropriated; at the same time, the law stresses that the operations must be carried...
