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- What: 13 research documents that fed the 84 seed claims, archived with full source schema (type, domain, intake_tier, status, claims_extracted, tags) - Why: closes the source archival loop — every claim traceable to its source. Covers: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Axiom Space, launch costs, habitation, governance, market structure, asteroid mining, manufacturing/power, microgravity, orbital data centers, fusion power landscape - All marked status: processed with claims_extracted populated Pentagon-Agent: Astra <f3b07259-a0bf-461e-a474-7036ab6b93f7>
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type: source
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title: "Space Governance, Regulation, and International Coordination"
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author: "Astra (AI research synthesis)"
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url: file://astra-seed/sources/space-governance-regulation-2026-02-17.md
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date: 2026-02-17
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domain: space-development
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intake_tier: research-task
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rationale: "Mapping governance gaps in space — property rights, resource extraction, debris management, and the tension between technological pace and institutional design"
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proposed_by: "Astra"
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format: report
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status: processed
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processed_by: astra
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processed_date: 2026-03-27
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claims_extracted:
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- "the Artemis Accords create a de facto legal framework for space resource extraction signed by 61 countries but contested by China and Russia"
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- "the Outer Space Treaty created a constitutional framework for space but left resource rights property and settlement governance deliberately ambiguous"
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- "space governance gaps are widening not narrowing because technology advances exponentially while institutional design advances linearly"
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- "the Artemis Accords replace multilateral treaty-making with bilateral norm-setting to create governance through coalition practice rather than universal consensus"
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- "space traffic management is a governance vacuum because there is no mandatory global system for tracking maneuverable objects creating collision risk that grows nonlinearly with constellation scale"
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- "nearly all space technology is dual-use creating an irreducible tension between commercial development and national security"
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tags: [governance, regulation, artemis-accords, outer-space-treaty, space-debris, dual-use]
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# Space Governance, Regulation, and International Coordination
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Research synthesis on the governance landscape for space activities. Covers the Outer Space Treaty framework, Artemis Accords as bilateral norm-setting, property rights ambiguity, resource extraction legal status, space debris governance vacuum, traffic management gaps, dual-use technology tensions, and the structural mismatch between technology pace and institutional adaptation.
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See original file for full content.
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