Space resources. Who claims what beyond Earth?

Duncan Blake, a researcher at the University of Adelaide and a former legal officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, explains how international law governs the use of space resources, including asteroid mining and the allocation of positions in geostationary orbit.

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, onboard, Saturday, March 23, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/(NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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