Marking Policy for New Asteroid Activities: In Pursuit of Science, Settlement, Security, or Sales?

Krolikowski, Alanna; Elvis, M.

doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2018.04.005

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“…This paper will also generalize our earlier work on the Peaks of Eternal Light [3] to other concentrated lunar resources and will contribute to the conceptualization of contested space resources more generally, e.g. near-Earth asteroids [4,5].…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Any proposed governance arrangement may have to contend with irreducible practical and conceptual tensions between different actors' designs: scientific, commercial, and human-exploration activities may often be incompatible with each other. Moreover, it is likely that these varied actors' plans are best served by different governance arrangements [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper will also generalize our earlier work on the Peaks of Eternal Light [3] to other concentrated lunar resources, and will contribute to the conceptualization of contested space resources more generally, e.g. near-Earth asteroids [4,5]. Over the past two decades the lunar surface and sub-surface have been mapped in increasing detail by a succession of lunar-orbiting spacecraft [6].…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The various sites also present different forms of value to lunar users pursuing distinct types of mission. We discuss their value and implications for the main types of mission currently envisioned to the lunar surface: scientific, human-exploration, and commercial missions [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Concentrated lunar resources: imminent implications for governance and justice

Elvis

Krolikowski

Milligan

2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Numerous missions planned for the next decade are likely to target a handful of small sites of interest on the Moon's surface, creating risks of crowding and interference at these locations. The Moon presents finite and scarce areas with rare topography or concentrations of resources of special value. Locations of interest to science, notably for astronomy, include the Peaks of Eternal Light, the coldest of the cold traps and smooth areas on the far side. Regions richest in physical resources could also be uniquely suited to settlement and commerce. Such sites of interest are both few and small. Typically, there are fewer than ten key sites of each type, each site spanning a few kilometres across. We survey the implications for different kinds of mission and find that the diverse actors pursuing incompatible ends at these sites could soon crowd and interfere with each other, leaving almost all actors worse off. Without proactive measures to prevent these outcomes, lunar actors are likely to experience significant losses of opportunity. We highlight the legal, policy and ethical ramifications. Insights from research on comparable sites on Earth present a path toward managing lunar crowding and interference grounded in ethical and practical near-term considerations. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades'.

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Concentrated lunar resources: imminent implications for governance and justice

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Milligan

2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…18 discusses why space economics is an important field of research; ref. 19 discusses different types of asteroid activities, classifying them into scientific research (science), human settlement in other parts of the solar system (settlement), planetary defense (security), and mining (sales). With the exception of case studies that concentrate on returns from specific space programs or sectoral studies on the space industry, contributions that analyze the technological developments spilling over from space are still lacking.…”

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The macroeconomic spillovers from space activity

Corrado,

Grassi,

Paolillo

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The resurgence in space activities we are witnessing may provide opportunities for new technologies to generate potential spillovers to the real economy. To address this view, we propose a macroeconomic model with endogenous growth and a space sector. The model describes the relationship between space investment and technological spillovers, which support persistent economic growth. Our estimates indicate that space activities provide growth spillovers that peak from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Recent space activities have a much lower economic impact. Finally, extensive experiments quantify the economic relevance of our results.

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