August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
..., full-motion video and images that span much of the electromagnetic spectrum. Planetary Resources is taking its space resource technologies and turning its space telescopes to look at Earth. We will provide new types of information like infrared and...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... clear that the types of resources to be extracted by commercial entities were either a ‘space resource’ (a resource found in space that is not biological in nature) or an ‘asteroid resource’, a ‘space resource found on or within a single asteroid...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... Competitiveness Act that explicitly allows US citizens to “engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources (including ... water and minerals)”. Luxembourg also passed a law in 2017 that gives companies the rights to whatever...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... Whitehead (lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) have proposed applying the New Zealand model to space resources, including the Moon. This view of the Moon’s north pole is a mosaic assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... that a more efficient, greener solution will be developed to complete the full sunshade. This is where the use of space resources becomes crucial, and where the sunshade begins to fulfil O’Neill’s vision. The transition from terrestrially-launched...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
..., and provide for the balance of public and commercial interests in the exploration and use of space. The problem of space resource mining as a challenge to the LTS should be a priority, not only for separate states but for the international...
