May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... resources ‘consistent with international law’ obligations of the US. Already some have claimed that authorising such space mining activity is tantamount to a claim of sovereignty over the celestial body where the extraction would take place. Those...
01 June 2016
Planetary Resources, Inc. secures funding for Ceres
....co; and Larry Page. Earth observation will be another aspect of Planetary Resources’ operations in addition to prospecting and mining asteroids. Planetary Resources, Inc., was founded in 2009 by Eric Anderson and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. The company...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... our relationship with Earth by moving much energy production, mining and heavy industry off the planet, allowing us to ...the early years, the LDC would be the equivalent of a mining town, supporting and managing the development of resources on the ...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
.... Now, at the dawn of the NewSpace era, we are starting to see innovative new business opportunities, such as asteroid mining, debris clean-up and satellite servicing. ROOM managing editor Clive Simpson met up with Anders Cavallini and...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... and Blue Origin, and Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, are widely known all over the world; mine much less so. We are representatives of different cultures, citizens of far-away countries and carriers of different mentalities; and...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... Space Agency’s Moon village idea. There are new business opportunities, from Luxembourg’s efforts on asteroid mining to Japanese start-up, Astro Live Experiences, that creates shooting stars on demand using microsatellites, aiming to contribute...
