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GLOBAL COMMONS

• Global commons is a term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains in which common-pool resources are found. Global commons include the earth’s shared natural resources, such as the high oceans, the atmosphere and outer space and the Antarctic in particular. Cyberspace may also meet the definition of a global commons.

WHAT ABOUT THE SPACE TREATIES?

•  The directive stresses that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty allows for the use of space resources on the moon, Mars and elsewhere. In addition, the U.S. has not signed on to the 1979 Moon Treaty, which says that non-scientific use of space resources musts be governed by international regulations.

MOON TREATY

• India is signatory of the treaty, but not a party

RUSSIAN REACTION

• Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s order allowing commercial lunar mining and the extraction of other resources in space, appearing to liken the policy to colonialism. Sergei Savelyev, the agency’s deputy head

RUSSIAN REACTION

• “There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its own interests and everyone remembers how that turned out,” Savelyev said. The Kremlin later said any colonization of space would be “unacceptable.”

HELIUM-3 FUSION FUEL

•  One of the main reasons helium-3 is sought as a fusion fuel is because there are no neutrons generated as a reaction product. The protons that do get generated have charge, and can therefore be safely contained using electromagnetic fields

 

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