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ANTARISHQ Research
Designing the ledger of a multi-world civilization.
Off-world resource frameworks, lunar commodity models, and interplanetary trade law — the economic architecture of the next thousand years.
Our mission
To design the institutions, treaties, and market structures that keep the space economy open, competitive, and just as it scales past a trillion dollars.
The global space economy reached $630B in 2023 and is projected past $1.8T by 2035 (McKinsey / WEF). Launch, connectivity, Earth observation, and in-space manufacturing are the near-term drivers. ANTARISHQ's economics group models the second-order effects: labor markets, capital flows, and sovereign risk in low-Earth orbit.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation but is silent on private resource extraction. The 2015 US Space Act, the 2020 Artemis Accords, and Luxembourg's 2017 space-resources law establish parallel — and inconsistent — regimes. We fund legal scholarship that treats the Moon less like Antarctica and more like the deep seabed under UNCLOS.
There are now 10,000+ active satellites. Kessler-syndrome risk, spectrum congestion, and orbital-slot scarcity are classic commons problems. Pigouvian debris fees, tradable orbital rights, and mandatory deorbit bonds are being modelled at MIT, Colorado, and the OECD Space Forum.
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