What is it about?
Technology for mining of natural resources from the Moon and Asteroids is ready and commercial exploitation for human use is viable. But this space activity has certain legal challenges under existing Space Law of Outer Space Treaty. This article suggests ways to reconcile and revise the law to make commercial Space mining legitimate and lawful.
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Why is it important?
Extraction of celestial Natural resources can supplement depleting resources on the Earth
Perspectives
Existing stride on commercial mining of celestial resources are useful for humanity but existing law is obstructive. We need to find ways to overcome this. This article attempts such solutions.
Gurbachan Sachdeva
NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, INDIA
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This page is a summary of: Commercial Mining of Celestial Resources: Case Study of U.S. Space Laws, Astropolitics, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14777622.2018.1534312.
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