Aug 9, 2017 · 10 min read

ASTEROID MINING AND THE LAW
The current interest and investment in asteroid mining made me curious about the laws which might apply to extraterrestrial mining operations. Not surprisingly, there isn’t a huge body of law in the area — yet. After doing some research, I became particularly interested in a hypothetical scenario: what happens if an asteroid mining company launches a spacecraft and it is destroyed in space, either by accident or intentionally, by another spacecraft…

