When Neil Armstrong planted the American flag on the Moon, it raised a huge question—who actually owns space? 
With asteroid mining, lunar bases, and Mars settlements on the horizon, space law is no longer science fiction. 
But without clear rules, could the final frontier become the next Wild West? 
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Do you think nations should be allowed to claim land in space? 
#SpaceLaw #AsteroidMining #ColonizingMars #SpaceWars
Leave the Oceans alone, mine the dead rocks in Space instead.
And Unionise those Belters!
Nearly every ground station 
experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief
“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of #platinum. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single #asteroid 
”. #Odin will arrive in late 
2025 after a journey of about 300 days to #2022OB5 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html
https://www.europesays.com/1873170/ From space junk to interplanetary travel: Magdrive’s €9.9 million funding for spacecraft propulsion #7percent #AlumniVentures #AsteroidMining #Balerion #EntrepreneurFirst #FoundersFund #Interplanetary #Magdrive #MarkStokes #Orbit #OutsizedVentures #oxfordshire #propulsion #Redalpine #satellite #seed #space #SPACECRAFT #ThomasClayson
Recent missions to rendezvous with and to orbit and land on #asteroids have demonstrated that #SpaceMining could be just a matter of time 
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-potential-trillion-dollar-industry.html
If there is water on Psyche then it will make mining it easier, handy stuff that Water.
Now is the time for future Belters to unionise
One of two metallic #asteroids floating in Earth's vicinity could boast more #iron, #nickel and #cobalt than the entirety of our #global 
metal reserves. https://www.cnet.com/science/rare-asteroids-near-earth-may-become-targets-for-space-mining/
#AstroForge launches the #Odin mission in January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining #asteroids’ metals before returning to Earth https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/
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#AsteroidMining 
has the potential to disrupt global #economic structures by introducing new sources of #minerals and #metals. While the cost of asteroid mining is currently high, long-term economic returns 
could outweigh these if the abundance of resources in asteroids is harnessed effectively and if #SpaceIndustrialization follows, reducing transportation costs. https://spacevoyageventures.com/the-economics-of-asteroid-mining-potential-and-pitfalls/
#AstroForge is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters 
across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth #asteroids , perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/
Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway - Enlarge / The Odin spacecraft passed vibration testing. (credit: Astro ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044016 #asteroidmining #science #space
While researching something else, I ran into photos of the Salina Turda salt #mine in Romania. The spectacular Bandenian #salt aside, it just looks amazing.
Can someone please use it as a movie set so I could geek out about to normal people? Anything involving #AsteroidMining would be great - it would drive the mineralogist crazy.
And barring Civilisational collapse (always possible) it will happen.
NASA has already sending a probe to the most promising (and perhaps weirdest) rock in the Belt, Psyche.
This world once had volcanoes of pure metal!
With Asteroid mining it will be much harder to smuggle child labour on board but Capitalism will try it's best to shoehorn cruelty into it somehow.
We should already be starting a "Belter's Union", workers in Space should get the same protection as back on Earth, prevent Elons from harming Space workers (it's probably his main motivation for mouthing off about Space, being away from Earth laws.)
NASA's mission to capture the asteroid 16 Psyche, valued at an astonishing $10 quintillion, is progressing steadily. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in October 2023, the spacecraft has been journeying through space at 84,000mph, covering a distance of 2.2 billion miles. Expected to reach its destination in August 2029, the vessel is currently in "full cruise" mode, propelled by electric thrusters towards the asteroid belt.
#NASA has contracts with four companies to gather a small amount of material from the lunar 
surface—as a proof of concept to show that extraction is possible.
NASA doesn’t have a similar demonstration for mining #asteroids. But the space rock seekers nevertheless continue their quest for treasure. They believe Earth needs, and will pay handily for, what space has to offer. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/in-the-race-for-space-metals-companies-hope-to-cash-in/
Human expansion into space is probably our only hope to reverse climate change and I will die on that hill.
https://www.space.com/responsible-space-settlement-benefit-humanity
