Who owns the space?
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Who owns the space?
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 min
The Moon, Mars and their natural resources?
Who will have the right to exploit them?
What geopolitics, what intersidereal right to invent between great powers and new players in space?
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Between the United States (the great space power which will soon land its new Rover Perseverance on Mars) and the others: the great old ones like the Russians, the Europeans, the Japanese, but especially the new ones starting with the Chinese who have joins the closed club of the great space powers by launching successfully in the exploration of the Moon and its hidden face.
Without forgetting the Indians or the Arab Emirates: all tempted by the space adventure in which private actors are now participating!
How to navigate?
What right, what geopolitics for the Universe?
Huge eminently complex project that we are going to open with
- Julien Mariez
, legal officer at
Cnes
and
Isabelle Sourbès-Verger,
geographer, researcher at CNRS and specialist in space policies.
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