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Minerals, metals and water on planetoids could support missions into the solar system
Luxembourg sets sights on extraterrestrial extraction industry
National statutes fill in some of the blanks of UN treaty written for cold war era
Grand Duchy backs prospecting for water and minerals via robotic missions
Manufacturing objects in orbit could be more economic than making them down here, writes Clive Cookson
Government to team up with private sector to develop new space industry
$200m renovation to help Google’s ambitions in exploration and robotics
‘This is the point when a power-hungry billionaire finds a legal path to building his own Death Star’
There is something self-defeating about the desire to gather precious metals in outer space
Internet tycoons are backing futuristic ventures that may herald an era of scientific innovation, writes Richard Waters
Silicon Valley-backed group turns to crowdsourcing
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