Space Resources

Dava Newman, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics whose groundbreaking work has advanced human performance in space with the goal of interplanetary reach, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1, 2021.

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UN and NASA to promote peaceful use of outer space

Last week, the Open Lunar Foundation announced a new initiative: Breaking Ground, a lunar resource trust. The purpose of the trust is to steward and demonstrate formal and effective institutional management of lunar resources between different stakeholders. In order to fulfill this goal and explore different resource management regimes, the trust will be purchasing lunar regolith from lunar transport, lander and extractive companies.

ESA contracts Italian firms to build Space Rider for LEO payloads

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Prof. Stephan Hobe, Director at Institute of Air Law, Space Law and Cyber Law, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany talked about the future design of the legal order for human activities in outer space.

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Hayabusa-2 lands sample from asteroid Ryugu after six year journey

Australian telescope 'googles' 3 million galaxies

China's Chang'e-5 leaves Moon while NASA pays $1 for lunar regolith