Golden opportunities for mining and commercial research outside the atmosphere

Golden opportunities for mining and commercial research outside the atmosphere

The space sector is currently undergoing a historic transformation no less significant than the space race of the 1960s. The crucial difference this time is that the players are no longer limited to two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union), but have become an arena of competition among governments, private giants, and emerging powers like China and India. The current atmosphere is charged with ambitions to return to the Moon through the Artemis program and to plan manned missions to Mars, raising profound questions about sustainability, economics, and space sovereignty. Strategic analysis is currently focused on "space accessibility." In the past decade, companies like SpaceX have revolutionized the industry by developing reusable rockets, drastically reducing costs. This success has made space travel accessible to a wide range of civilian and commercial purposes, not just military ones. However, this development has created a worrying dependency for the Euro…