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  1. Info about company and founder by wildmage · · Score: 5, Informative · on Personalized Moon Crash

    The company is Orbital Development.

    Gregory Nemitz is an interesting character. I am a little skeptical about the deal since you are purchasing a "project" and not an actual mission. So there are very few guarantees attached, and you have limited authority of the project.

    I think Nemitz's more interesting project is the most credible attempt to assert ownership over an extraterrestrial body. Specifically, he is asserting his claim over the near earth asteroid Eros.

    On his website you can see legal correspondence between him and NASA as he gives them an invoice for a parking fee for their NEAR spacecraft that crash landed on the asteroid. Also available is his explanation of what he is doing and why he is doing. A very interesting read, and it gives some in-depth analysis of the nature of property ownership.

  2. Re:Who's plot will it land in? by MrIrwin · · Score: 1 · on Personalized Moon Crash
    Ironically, looking at Orbital developments homepage they would appear to be involved in a things called the Eros project, which is all about property rights in space.

    Perhaps your 10Kg cargo could just be flag with which you stake your claim ;-)

  3. Re:Link to Auction by BrianGa · · Score: 4, Informative · on Personalized Moon Crash

    Project Link is here.

  4. Missing link in posting! by Excarnate · · Score: 1 · on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim


    Gregory W. Nemitz

    I know that some feel that 8 links in 1 paragraph is excessive, but that's crap! It isn't enough! Shame on the poster, shame.

  5. I guess OrbDev *must* be a major player... by woods · · Score: 1 · on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim
    Wow. This is some serious outfit. Look at the kind of backing that they have (from the OrbDev homepage):


    The Eros Project is primarily sponsored by Beefjerky.com. You can support this critial legal work in progress by trying some delicious "Final Frontier Jerky" from Beefjerky.com.

  6. Maybe NASA's parking and storage lease is up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Resurrecting NEAR

    Maybe they just plan to move the probe from space 29 in Orbital Development's parking and storage facility to avoid any late fees (see their website).

  7. NASA Billed $20 for Next Century's Rent for NEAR by beefjerky_com · · Score: 2 · on Say Goodnight to NEAR

    The San Diego company, Orbital Development, OrbDev, has owned Eros since 03 Mar 2000 when the company filed a claim at the Archimedes Institute

    OrbDev's founder, Gregory Nemitz, states that Orbital Development has sent an invoice to Dan Goldin, Head Administrator of NASA, in the amount of $20 for the next century's parking/storage fees for the NEAR spacecraft, now resting on OrbDev's property Eros.

    Nemitz says, "It is not about the money. The invoice was sent to stimulate serious discussion about Property Rights in Space. Twenty cents a year, for a century, is a bargain. Nobody can rightfully say that OrbDev is ripping-off the US Government."

    He also maintains that any agreement on Space Property Rights by the world's Nations could take more than a decade to enact.

    Nemitz goes on to postulate that if OrbDev's claim was recognized by the United Nations as a one-time only experiment in "equity-based space resource development", OrbDev could use that recognized equity in Eros' 80 trillion tons of material to raise the funds to develop all of the Space infrastructure pieces that can also enable Lunar and Martian development.

    Eros development will require new heavy-lift launch vehicles, micro-gee mining equipment, long-term habitation systems, deep space power systems, fuel extraction and storage equipment.

    "The Space Resources Development Industry could be born, while the UN debates the fate of the rest of the Solar System." Nemitz states.