Posted on 10/21/2020 7:10:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
All seven partners who have agreed to the accords with the US are natural collaborators on the Artemis Program and will easily adhere to the stated principles. Japan is keen to engage in lunar exploration. Luxembourg has dedicated legislation allowing for space mining and has also signed an additional collaborative agreement with the US.
The UAE and Australia are both actively trying to establish collaborative links with the broader space industry, so this represents a perfect opportunity for them to build up capacity. Italy, the UK and Canada all have ambitions to develop their space manufacturing industries and will see this as a chance to grow their economies.
The contents of the accords are relatively uncontentious. Throughout, there is reference to the existing Outer Space Treaty framework, so they are tied closely to existing norms of space law....
There is an explicit statement that the mining of space resources is in accordance with international law. This follows on from the controversial passing of the Space Act 2015, which put the right to use and trade space resources into American domestic law. But section 10(4) of the accords also commits to ongoing discussions at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space as to how the legal framework should develop.
The rest of the accords focus on safety in space operations, transparency and interoperability (which refers to the ability of space systems to work in conjunction with each other).
Russia has already stated that the Artemis Program is too "US-centric" to sign it in its present form. China’s absence is explained by the US congressional prohibition on collaboration with the country....
Germany, France and India are also absent. These are countries with well developed space programs that would surely have benefited from being involved in Project Artemis....
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Who are they kidding? China wouldn’t collaborate with us no matter what congress does. They have their own ambitions in space.
Any treaty with China would be a waste of perfectly good paper.
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Armstrong and Aldrin planted a U.S. flag on the moon with five other missions. It’s ours.
The “space law” reminds me of the map of the world the Pope drew up in the early 1500s.
The Pope awarded half of the world to Spain and the other half to Portugal.
They kept it for a while, until their armies and navies were brutally crushed in one war after another.
A Bagger 288 sized excavator on the Moon could be watched from Earth based, home telescopes.
“One piece at a time.”
Realistically, what could France bring to the table.
I suppose if we need to surrender to the aliens....
the fact of traveling to the moon itself is so great.
but it is not only China, Russia also rejected to join NASA and throwing in with China.
Will the parts fit?
The moon is ours! We should’ve been more assertive in claiming it once we landed there in the 70s. I’m sure whoever goes there now will ignore any agreements and stakeout claims. It is a shame that the US is squander this opportunity.
After we drill it out so that it would fit,
And with a little bit of help from an A-dapter kit
Where can I see that map?
Disappointed India didn’t join us. Maybe later. Germany and France are has beens. Russia and China are enemies so what did we expect?
More info on the Portugal/Spain “divide the world” treaty here (includes map):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
Thanks man.
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