September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... to ensure new activities help preserve and do not undermine space heritage sites of historical significance. 8. Space Resources: signatories affirm that extraction of resources does not inherently constitute national appropriation under Article...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... bid price, $1 – the transaction not only marks the first sale of resources in space, but it also sets a legal and procedural framework for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector; for the US at least. Although not heading for...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... in the ESA Director General Strategy Department. He is in charge of relations with Member States and has been working on space resources issues and on the Moon Village vision. Piero has worked at ESA for over 25 years and is a graduate...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... advantage on the terrestrial battlefield”. The importance of controlling access to outer space resources, for Dolman, cannot be overstated: “the resource potential of space… is so vast that, should any one state gain effective control of it, that...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... which, in turn, is leading to some states actively pursuing investments and creating regulatory frameworks to promote, for example, space resource utilisation. The latest prime movers on this front are states such as Luxembourg and the United Arab...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 is now law, including laying the groundwork for a space resources industry. A year from now at least two space resource companies will be flying experimental spacecraft in Earth orbit as the first steps of a quest...
