The Artemis Accords: Principles for Cooperation in the Civil Exploration and Use of the Moon, Mars, Comets, and Asteroids
The Artemis Accords: Principles for Cooperation in the Civil Exploration and Use of the Moon, Mars, Comets, and Asteroids (2020)2020 · Law · Section 10, paragraph 2EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0929 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Section 10 of the Artemis Accords, first signed on 13 October 2020, covers resource recovery on the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids and affirms that extraction of space resources 'does not inherently constitute national appropriation under Article II of the Outer Space Treaty'.”
Context. The Accords are non-binding; Russia and China criticised them, and some scholars see a conflict with the non-appropriation principle.
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Artemis Accords
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