United Kingdom: space resources
National laws, government authorizations and organizations based in United Kingdom in this dataset.
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National laws and instruments in effect
No national space resources law in effect for United Kingdom is recorded in this dataset.
Organizations based here
4| Organization | Country | Targets | Roles | Highest evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqualunar Challenge (UK–Canada lunar water purification prize)Joint UK–Canada challenge prize, launched on 17 January 2024, for technologies to purify water from ice buried in lunar soil so it can be… | United Kingdom | Moon | None stated | No level assigned | Concluded |
| Asteroid Mining CorporationUK company incorporated in March 2016 that developed the SCAR-E six-legged robot prototype for asteroid and lunar surface work and signed a… | United Kingdom | Near-Earth asteroid, Moon | Rover / mobility | No level assigned | Dormant |
| MetalysisUK metal-powder producer using the FFC Cambridge solid-state electrolysis process; with ESA funding (contract 4000131940, 2020) it produced… | United Kingdom | Moon, Mars | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Active |
| The Open UniversityUK university covered here for developing and providing ProSPA, the sample-analysis instrument within ESA's PROSPECT lunar sampling and… | United Kingdom | Moon | Prospecting, Processing / ISRU | No level assigned | Unknown |