Property on space resources: The search for a terminology ...

• Main Author: Guyomarc’h, Alban
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation 2023
• Subjects: South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2785-7867/7954; https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/JLMI/article/view/7954

By the end of one or two decades, several competing lunar bases will be installed or in the process of being installed, most probably located around the Moon's South Pole and its water resources. By the end of three decades, companies will probably be extracting resources from the moon with a commercial and lucrative objective. But already on Earth, some states are taking the lead and intervening in the regulation of this future exploitation. Of these, the United States and Luxembourg admitted the existence of property rights over space resources through national laws in 2015 and 2017, in each case assuming the compliance of the resulting provisions with existing international law and more particularly with Article II of the Outer Space Treaty, dedicated to non-appropriation. Our article seeks to analyse that appealing hybrid notion of space property in a strategic legal and geopolitical environment that is in the process of renewal. Indeed, space is undergoing a paradigm shift with a synchronous movement of ... : Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): 2/2023 ...