July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... and Orrman-Rossiter imagine that something similar could be created from the wealth derived from outer space resources and they propose the establishment of an international organisation which has the right to ‘lease’ extraterrestrial sites...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... needed to support the opening of the frontier. From space resources laws to the recent Artemis Accords, some have shown ... availability of free solar energy, unlimited ‘space’, vast in situ space resources, easy access to the entire knowledge base...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
..., US President Trump recently signed an executive order titled ‘Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources’, setting out a policy interpretation which stresses the current regulatory regime - notably, the 1967 Outer...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...that will enable the betterment of human life on Earth as well as the expansion of humanity into space. Settlement includes space resource utilisation, space fuel depots, research outposts, and more. It’s about taking the best of our civilization and...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... support of their national interests. There has been growing interest in utilising outer space resources for commercial benefit, as evidenced by the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 and the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... enable sample return from the most challenging lunar environments. Ultimately, extraterrestrial resources will be valuable not just on Earth but in cislunar space, too - as propellant, for life support supplies and for manufacturing. We believe that...
