March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... internationally. [7] The final Title was the Space Resource and Utilization Act of 2015, which strove to generate..., Aug. 11, 2015, http://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary-resources-2025.html. 9 However, the “minority report” included in ...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
..., if we were to get out into the Solar System - would be to steer asteroids. The Planetary Resources company and others are already eyeing the wealth of resources out there. Suppose our descendants were to use this capability to target thousands...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...communication to provide a data relay service for remote sensing satellites. Previously he was Director of Special Projects at Planetary Resources. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 2017 and has an MSc in Space Science and Engineering from...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
...beginning to hit its stride and space projects such as Planetary Resources’ Arkyd showed that websites like Kickstarter could deliver a ...B2C). And the public? Well, they are the ultimate resource, and any project that engages them will benefit by the ...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... performing an asteroid flyby mission, thus accelerating the development time of what can otherwise be long-timescale missions. Planetary Resources’ concept for asteroid mining. With development of spacecraft able to perform asteroid rendezvous and...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
..., especially user-oriented ones. Mining space Speaking of small satellite use in the long run, companies such as Planetary Resources should be mentioned. It has already attracted a significant amount of investment, which shows us that goals that have...
