Deep space commodities exploration, production and trading /

Welcome to the new space economy ... Space is open for business! The dawn of a new space race led by private sector entrepreneurs is upon us thanks to the USA Space Act 2015 and technology advances like SpaceX rockets, which have greatly reduced the cost of space flight. For the first time in histor...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: James, Tom (Editor) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Subjects:
Space industrialization.
Space mining.
Space mining -- Law and legislation.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Deep space commodities and the new space economy
  • A new space race
  • Launching from earth : the science behind space law and technological developments
  • Human versus machine : who will mine space?
  • Scouting for resources
  • Asteroid mining concepts
  • Asteroid impact and deflection assessment mission (AIDA) : space mining concepts
  • A briefing on the legal and geopolitical facets of space resources
  • The problems with an international legal framework for asteroid mining
  • Potential issues for interplanetary and interstellar trade
  • Astropolitics and international relations
  • The economic viability of Mars colonization.

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