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Using an Oil Industry Framework to Map Space Resources


Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century. Getting enough infrastructure built up is necessary to collect those resources effectively, but doing so is too expensive without using the resources themselves.

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Using an Oil Industry Framework to Map Space Resources

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Japan is hoping to double the size of its space sector by the early 2030s. The Japanese Diet has passed a series of laws aimed at making private space operations more enticing, with a legal path for companies to explore and extract various space resources.