Space Resources
Deep Space Industries acquired by Bradford Space
Deep Space Industries (DSI), a company founded to pursue asteroid mining but which more recently has focused on smallsats, has been acquired by another space technology company.
Space Law Workshop exposes rift in legal community over national authority to sanction space mining
“The problem is there is currently not legal certainty about what is allowed and what is not allowed,” said Tanja Masson-Zwaan, former president of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).
Luxembourg adopts space resources law
The government of Luxembourg has passed a bill giving companies the rights to space resources they extract from asteroids or other celestial bodies.
New law and space agency to support Luxembourg’s space resources ambitions
The government of Luxembourg expects to soon have in place both a new national space law and a national space agency, two key steps in the small European country’s outsized contribution to the development of a space resources industry.
Congress Defends Commercial Space Bill’s Resource Rights Provisions
With the biggest commercial space bill in more than a decade now signed into law, members of Congress and their staffs are now turning their attention to reports required by the new law as well as other legislation.
