Policy & sustainability · Governance
Space Resource Policy
The unsettled question of who may extract and own resources from the Moon and asteroids, and under what rules. The Outer Space Treaty forbids claiming territory, but says little about mining, and nations are now enacting their own laws — a live and contested frontier of space law.
Treaties, bodies & topics
Across space policy
Knowledge connections
- Associated withThe Moon Agreement
- Associated withThe Artemis Accords
- Associated withThe Moon Agreement
- Associated withIn-Situ Resource Utilisation
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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