Chile to sign Artemis Accords
NASA yesterday invited the media to attend to signing of the Artemis Accords by Chile at the end of this week.
Chile will be the 46th nation to sign. The full list is as follows: Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the Ukraine, the United States and Uruguay.
Though the Biden administration continues to describe the accords as a means for “reinforcing” the Outer Space Treaty — the opposite of its original intent — a new Trump administration will be well positioned with this very large alliance to force changes in the treaty’s limits to private property and capitalism. All that has to happen is a will to demand it. Some of these nations might balk, but I think most will go along, some quite enthusiastically.
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NASA yesterday invited the media to attend to signing of the Artemis Accords by Chile at the end of this week.
Chile will be the 46th nation to sign. The full list is as follows: Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the Ukraine, the United States and Uruguay.
Though the Biden administration continues to describe the accords as a means for “reinforcing” the Outer Space Treaty — the opposite of its original intent — a new Trump administration will be well positioned with this very large alliance to force changes in the treaty’s limits to private property and capitalism. All that has to happen is a will to demand it. Some of these nations might balk, but I think most will go along, some quite enthusiastically.
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Have thought Chile might be ideal for a space gun (Verne gun), as the Andes slope a long ways beneath the Pacific.
http://www.longshotspace.com is looking at the problems, although Scott Taylor’s Hypacc and Quicklaunch approach is better
Tunnels cut be cut by petra.cc that run up the slope for miles up and miles down to benthic pressures at the breach—muzzle out of a mountain with payload loading a little above sea level.
We are getting one or two new signatories to the Artemis Accords every month now. By year’s end we could hit or pass 50 total signatories. That would be about a quarter of all the national entities on Earth. And there seems no reason to suppose the rate at which new adherents to the Artemis Accords sign on is likely to slow down until the signatory count is well above 100.