The Legal Void of the Asteroid Gold Rush

Depiction of Psyche spacecraft headed to the asteroid belt. Credit - NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta Astronautica from Anna Marie Brenna of the University of Waikato in New Zealand discusses a framework that she thinks might work to solve the legal challenges facing those who want to protect the space environment and those who want to exploit it.

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