{"id":121242,"date":"2021-04-05T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-mining-is-not-science-fiction-and-canada-could-figure-prominently"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:22:37","slug":"space-mining-is-not-science-fiction-and-canada-could-figure-prominently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-mining-is-not-science-fiction-and-canada-could-figure-prominently","title":{"rendered":"Space mining is not science fiction, and Canada could figure prominently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-mining-is-not-science-fiction-and-canada-could-figure-prominently2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an additional reason why international agreement and co-operation in the outer space domain is crucial: the peaceful use of outer space, as required by the Outer Space Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, eight countries signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/nasa-seeks-to-set-law-for-space-mining\/\">NASA-led initiative<\/a> called the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/could-corporations-control-territory-in-space-under-new-us-rules-it-might-be-possible-138939\">Artemis Accords<\/a>. These included the United States, Canada, Australia and Luxembourg. Notably absent were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/experts-warn-of-brewing-space-mining-war-among-us-china-and-russia\/\">Russia and China<\/a>, who have since agreed to collaborate with each other on space initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Legal issues about the ownership of space resources must <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/lunar-gold-rush-could-create-conflict-on-the-ground-if-we-dont-act-now-new-research-151645\">urgently be addressed to avoid space wars<\/a> over natural resources between superpowers like the U.S., Russia and China. This includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/artemis-accords-why-many-countries-are-refusing-to-sign-moon-exploration-agreement-148134\">legal status of the Artemis Accords<\/a>. Ideally, it should be done before space mining starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an additional reason why international agreement and co-operation in the outer space domain is crucial: the peaceful use of outer space, as required by the Outer Space Treaty. In October 2020, eight countries signed a NASA-led initiative called the Artemis Accords. These included the United States, Canada, Australia and Luxembourg. Notably absent were Russia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1496,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-law","category-space","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}