Everything in the course, before you buy it.

The opening chapter. Tom James walks you through the inflection point of 25 November 2015 and what it means for resource extraction beyond Earth.

• The New Space Economy: Star Date 25 November 20152:21
• Space: The New Frontier of Innovation2:20
• So What Does the Future Hold?2:10
• What Comes First — The Chicken, the Egg or the Saucepan?2:21
• How Will the Deep Space Commodity Industry Develop?2:16
• Deep Space Commodity Developments2:18
• Water as Fuel2:05
• Chapter 1 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tim R. Bowler (BBC News) on how commerce, not Cold War politics, is now driving the space race — and why the launch market has fundamentally changed.

• The Original Space Race — Cold War to Collaboration2:15
• The Commercial Revolution1:54
• Downstream Applications2:14
• Launcher Options2:35
• Beyond Earth — Lunar Water and the Cost Multiplier1:57
• The Challenges — Debris, Privacy, Regulation1:57
• Mid-century and Beyond2:20
• Chapter 2 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tom James and Simon Roper on the legal frameworks, treaties and corporate giants reshaping how we get to orbit and beyond.

• Why Space Law Matters Now1:54
• The Five UN Treaties: A Crash Course2:37
• The Cosmos 954 Precedent and Liability Today2:00
• NASA + SpaceX: Birth of the Commercial Crew Program2:14
• The Players, Part I — SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Origin2:52
• The Players, Part II — Bigelow, Virgin Galactic, Sierra Nevada, Lockheed, NanoRacks3:01
• Reusable Rockets and the Cost Curve2:13
• The Asia and Middle East Surge2:42
• Chapter 3 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tom James and Simon Roper weigh autonomous robotics against human oversight for the first generation of off-world resource extraction.

• Speaking Across Light-Minutes3:19
• Why the First Miners Will Be Machines3:31
• Supervised Autonomy: The Working Model3:35
• The Per-Kilo Economics of Sending People3:39
• Inside an Asteroid Mining Operation3:50
• The Supporting Stack4:06
• Chapter 4 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tom James on the methods, sensors and surveys used to identify and prioritise resource-rich celestial bodies.

• The Prospecting Mindset3:44
• Orbital Reconnaissance3:51
• Site Selection3:54
• Water As the Prize4:06
• Lunar Exploration: The Short Game4:02
• Strategic Resource Targeting4:33
• Chapter 5 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tom James on the engineering architectures and economic models being designed to extract value from near-Earth asteroids.

• The Economic Case for Asteroid Mining4:19
• Asteroid Taxonomy: C, S, M and Beyond4:39
• Extraction Methods in Microgravity4:26
• Processing in Vacuum4:42
• Risk, Feasibility and the Honest Cost Picture5:03
• Chapter 6 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Tom James on how the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission informs both planetary defence and the mining playbook.

• Planetary Defence and Mining: Same Playbook4:23
• DART and Hera: The AIDA Architecture4:35
• The Kinetic Impact Technique4:26
• The Mission Design4:32
• The Data Dividends4:51
• Deflect or Mine: The Crossover4:50
• Mining Probes and the Competitive Landscape5:18
• Chapter 7 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Michael J. Listner walks you through the live legal and geopolitical battles shaping who is allowed to own what in space.

• Where Space Law Came From4:22
• The Outer Space Treaty, Re-read for Commerce5:12
• The Moon Agreement Post-Mortem5:05
• From Apollo to Artemis: The Legislative Lineage5:22
• The Legal Concept of "Space Resources"6:01
• Geopolitical Effects: Friends, Rivals, Middle Powers5:47
• Chapter 8 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Kamil Muzyka on the gaps, conflicts and ambiguities in the current treaty regime as applied to commercial mining.

• Where the Law Sits Today6:00
• UN-Based Solutions: What UNCOPUOS Could Still Do5:36
• Non-UN-Based Solutions5:53
• Benefits-Sharing: The Question That Won't Go Away5:51
• Robot Ethics: The Next Legal Frontier5:44
• Chapter 9 exam — 80% to pass30:00

John Hickman on the logistical, monetary and regulatory shape of trade once humans operate across multiple worlds.

• Trade Without Tangible Goods5:18
• The Common Currency Problem5:37
• Enforcing Sovereign Debt Across Light-Minutes5:18
• Trade with Non-Human Species5:55
• The Cultural Exchange Risk6:13
• Chapter 10 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Bleddyn E. Bowen on how spacefaring capability rewrites the rules of geopolitical power in the 21st century.

• Space Warfare: What It Actually Means Today6:35
• Historical Analogies for Space Power5:52
• Motivations for Space Power6:44
• Astropolitics in Contemporary IR Theory6:13
• The Future Balance5:48
• Chapter 11 exam — 80% to pass30:00

Robert Zubrin on the financial models, transport architectures and timelines required to make a Martian settlement actually pay.

• The Four Phases of Mars Colonisation5:30
• Mars Versus Moon: Strategic Comparison5:44
• Bending the Transport Cost Curve5:55
• Populating Mars5:49
• The Triangle Trade: Earth, Moon, Mars6:15
• Historical Analogies and the Honest Forecast5:49
• Chapter 12 exam — 80% to pass30:00