Episode 6: Space Resources and Legislation

Listen to this episode from Resourceful: the space resources podcast on Spotify. Throughout the five episodes of Resourceful, we have had a chance to exchange with scientists, entrepreneurs and engineers, but we had not involved the regulatory experts into the conversation yet. In this sixth episode, Steven Freeland, professor at Western Sydney University and Bond University, and Vice-Chair, United Nations COPUOS Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities and Antonino Salmeri from Lunar Policy Platform are joining the conversation, telling us more about the big regulatory questions that arise when we ⁠make great ⁠plans for space exploration. Listen until the end to discover some links with previous episodes and understand how everything comes together. Spoiler alert: we will be looking back at the first episode where we explored the Antarctica model together with Katherine Joy. Sources: www.esric.lu/news-media/podcasts

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Episode 3: Space and Circularity

Listen to this episode from Resourceful: the space resources podcast on Spotify. We have surrounded our planet Earth with spacecraft that make our daily lives easier to navigate, help us tackle the impact of climate change, as well as answer vital scientific questions. Today we are launching 10 times more than we did 10 years ago and even if there is a lot of space in space, it is all becoming a bit cluttered. Right now we are only talking about satellites and space stations, but with more and more missions to the Moon underway – estimated at 400 by 2030, we will become increasingly challenged as a society to rethink our footprint in space and switch to a circular mindset. On earth, electronic waste is foreseen to reach 75 million tons by 2030, but what about the trash that is currently floating above our heads? For this third episode of our mini-series, we have asked Sabrina Andiappane from Clearspace and Bernd Weiss from Lulea University of Technology to clear the air for us and explain what kind of solutions they envision for a circular future of space. Sources and references: https://www.esric.lu/news-media/podcasts

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