Samuel Jardine and Dr Antonino Salmeri co-author article in SpaceWatch Global on the policy and geopolitical trends facing the Lunar environment

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Our Head of Research, Samuel Jardine, co-authored with Dr Antonio Salmeri an article appearing in SpaceWatch Global exploring the policy and geopolitical trends facing the Lunar environment. Key takeaways;

1) An increasingly diverse array of actors is driving lunar exploration: The physical arrival of commercial players is transforming the landscape, but their role in governance remains complicated.

2) Multilateral cooperation in a geopolitically competitive environment: Despite Earth’s geopolitical tensions spilling into space, developments like ATLAC and the UN Lunar Sustainability Conference signal multilateral progress can be slowly and carefully made.

3) From exploration to permanence: Infrastructure development, from satellite constellations to lunar nuclear power, raises urgent policy questions around safety, transparency, and equitable access.

As the pace of lunar development accelerates, the window to establish robust governance mechanisms is narrowing, making multilateral action and collaboration imperative.