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4th February 2016, 02:00
Luxembourg to support space mining
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Luxembourg to support space mining
By Jonathan Amos ...BBC Science Correspondent
3 February 2016...From the section Science & Environment
The Luxembourg government has signalled its intention to get behind the mining of
asteroids in space.It is going to support R&D in technologies that would make it possible
and may even invest directly in some companies.The Grand Duchy will also put in place
a legal framework to give operators who are based in the country the confidence to go
about their business.Former European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain is to be
an adviser.
Home talent
He told reporters on Wednesday that space mining was no longer science fiction in the
pages of a Jules Verne novel; that the basic technologies - of landing and returning
materials from asteroids - had essentially been proven.And he urged European
entrepreneurs to follow the example of start-up American companies that had already
begun to consider how they could exploit the expensive metals, rare elements and other
valuable resources in space bodies. "Things are moving in the United States and it was
high time there was an initiative in Europe, and I am glad the first initiative is coming
from Luxembourg," he said. "It will give no excuse for European investors to go to
California." Two notable American companies, Deep Space Industries and Planetary
Resources, have begun assembling teams to design spacecraft systems that can survey
potential targets and eventually grab ores at, or just below, their surface.
Legal framework
Last year, their activities were bolstered by US legislation that sought to cement the
rights of any American operations that started to exploit asteroids.Some commentators
at the time suggested this legislation might contravene the UN's Outer Space Treaty,
signed in 1967. But Luxembourg's economic minister, Etienne Schneider, is relaxed
about the move.
"These rules prohibit the appropriation of space and celestial bodies but they do not
exclude the appropriation of materials which can be found there," he said.
"Roughly, the situation is equivalent to the rights of a trawler in international waters.
Fishermen own the fish they catch but they do not own the ocean."
Prospecting in space
◾13,500 so-called near-Earth asteroids have been discovered to date
◾But prospectors would have to identify the right types to mine
◾Of particular interest would be those high in platinum-group metals
◾Platinum, iridium, palladium, etc are rare at the Earth's surface
◾Dissolvable in molten iron, the metals have sunk to Earth's core
◾But their surface abundance should be greater on some asteroids
◾Materials like water and iron could also support in-space activity
◾Water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel
Read More...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35482427
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Space business: US citizens get right to mine asteroids
U93ux6HUGDM
Published on 3 Dec 2015
US lawmakers have decided to expand the reach of capitalism into the universe,
and make celestial bodies a source of income. President Barack Obama signed an
act giving US companies the right to the commercial exploration of asteroids and
other bodies in space.
RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air
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Space mining is a staple of science fiction and has been speculated for many
decades and some alternate researchers like John Lear and others have done
presentations and suggest we have been mining on the moon and possibly
elsewhere for decades as well. I posted a couple days ago a old coast discussion
with John Lear where he shows some photos reporting to show these activities on
the Moon.
There are several new Sky -fy series and one is set a few centuries into the future
and is set partially in the Kuiper belt, asteroid mining colonies . Science and
Science fiction are intertwined and one drives the other .
THE EXPANSE Trailer | The Story
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Moon Secrets Revealed - John Lear & Richard Hoagland Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqC9cYwAQE0
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88615-The-Moon-Exposed--MILES-HIGH-Tower-Discovery&p=1042981&viewfull=1#post1042981
Copernicus Crater
PIA 00094
Lunar Orbiter V
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Moon9/PIA00094/PIA_Mine01.png
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Moon_Images_A04.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_j2hJ6gmM
http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/blogs/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0168eaa8f840970c-800wi.jpg
http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/02/14/1226577/739837-deep-space-industries-catching-an-asteroid.jpg
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/australia-to-have-grandstand-view-of-asteroid-2012-da14-and-its-near-miss-with-earth/story-fn5fsgyc-1226577882092
http://static.bbci.co.uk/frameworks/barlesque/3.7.3/orb/4/img/bbc-blocks-dark.png
Luxembourg to support space mining
By Jonathan Amos ...BBC Science Correspondent
3 February 2016...From the section Science & Environment
The Luxembourg government has signalled its intention to get behind the mining of
asteroids in space.It is going to support R&D in technologies that would make it possible
and may even invest directly in some companies.The Grand Duchy will also put in place
a legal framework to give operators who are based in the country the confidence to go
about their business.Former European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain is to be
an adviser.
Home talent
He told reporters on Wednesday that space mining was no longer science fiction in the
pages of a Jules Verne novel; that the basic technologies - of landing and returning
materials from asteroids - had essentially been proven.And he urged European
entrepreneurs to follow the example of start-up American companies that had already
begun to consider how they could exploit the expensive metals, rare elements and other
valuable resources in space bodies. "Things are moving in the United States and it was
high time there was an initiative in Europe, and I am glad the first initiative is coming
from Luxembourg," he said. "It will give no excuse for European investors to go to
California." Two notable American companies, Deep Space Industries and Planetary
Resources, have begun assembling teams to design spacecraft systems that can survey
potential targets and eventually grab ores at, or just below, their surface.
Legal framework
Last year, their activities were bolstered by US legislation that sought to cement the
rights of any American operations that started to exploit asteroids.Some commentators
at the time suggested this legislation might contravene the UN's Outer Space Treaty,
signed in 1967. But Luxembourg's economic minister, Etienne Schneider, is relaxed
about the move.
"These rules prohibit the appropriation of space and celestial bodies but they do not
exclude the appropriation of materials which can be found there," he said.
"Roughly, the situation is equivalent to the rights of a trawler in international waters.
Fishermen own the fish they catch but they do not own the ocean."
Prospecting in space
◾13,500 so-called near-Earth asteroids have been discovered to date
◾But prospectors would have to identify the right types to mine
◾Of particular interest would be those high in platinum-group metals
◾Platinum, iridium, palladium, etc are rare at the Earth's surface
◾Dissolvable in molten iron, the metals have sunk to Earth's core
◾But their surface abundance should be greater on some asteroids
◾Materials like water and iron could also support in-space activity
◾Water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel
Read More...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35482427
====================================================
Space business: US citizens get right to mine asteroids
U93ux6HUGDM
Published on 3 Dec 2015
US lawmakers have decided to expand the reach of capitalism into the universe,
and make celestial bodies a source of income. President Barack Obama signed an
act giving US companies the right to the commercial exploration of asteroids and
other bodies in space.
RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air
====================================================
Space mining is a staple of science fiction and has been speculated for many
decades and some alternate researchers like John Lear and others have done
presentations and suggest we have been mining on the moon and possibly
elsewhere for decades as well. I posted a couple days ago a old coast discussion
with John Lear where he shows some photos reporting to show these activities on
the Moon.
There are several new Sky -fy series and one is set a few centuries into the future
and is set partially in the Kuiper belt, asteroid mining colonies . Science and
Science fiction are intertwined and one drives the other .
THE EXPANSE Trailer | The Story
vigQp8_xhQQ
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Moon Secrets Revealed - John Lear & Richard Hoagland Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqC9cYwAQE0
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88615-The-Moon-Exposed--MILES-HIGH-Tower-Discovery&p=1042981&viewfull=1#post1042981
Copernicus Crater
PIA 00094
Lunar Orbiter V
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Moon9/PIA00094/PIA_Mine01.png
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Moon_Images_A04.html