Resourceful

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...

A small nation on the global map: Luxembourg plays a central role in the field of space. With the creation of the Luxembourg Space Agency in 2018, and then, in 2020, the inauguration of the first research and innovation centre focused on space resources - ESRIC, the small Grand Duchy is no longer renowned only for its financial services and European institutions. Furthermore, Luxembourg is hosting...

It is estimated that the lunar economy will reach a total of €170 billion of cumulative market value and lead to the creation of close to 2 million jobs in the next 15-20 years. The next decade could be marked by over 400 lunar missions, making the Moon a new priority for space agencies and commercial actors.  To demystify this topic, in the fourth episode of Resourceful, we have invited Kyle Acie...

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,...

With humanity’s desire and need to accomplish more in space, the question of sustainability arises. How can space exploration become less reliant on earth’s resources, and on public funding, and flourish in the context of a future in-space economy? In this second episode of Resourceful we have invited two experts to tell us more about sustainability in space. Daniel Faber, the CEO and co-founder o...

The integration of in-situ use of space resources has the potential to completely revolutionise the way space exploration is being conducted. In the long term, it can decrease the costs associated with space flights, it can make our activities in space cleaner and bring circularity into the space equation. In the first episode of the series, we would like to understand more about what space resour...