The White House executive order on “encouraging international support for the recovery and use of space resources” that came out in April 2020 created an immediate global outburst of discussions. While it is more or less an extension of previous US positions, it has new legal, political, and diplomatic ramifications due to the timing of its publication, when concrete plans are being put in place by the US administration with the intention of
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Space digging: Controlling mining in outer space requires a resurgence of multilateralism
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In April, Donald Trump signed an executive order formalising the US policy on space mining by allowing the exploitation of off-earth resources. This has underlined the need for a global consensus and an international regulatory framework.
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