From request to review
Locate the asset or route
For license asteroid extraction activity, record the requester, location, scope and responsible receiving office. The receipt identifies the clock and competent jurisdiction.
Gate: Location and competence are recorded
Owner: Asteroid excavationValidate the operating envelope
Assess extraction plan; reconcile it with dust and impact controls and closure finance. A missing document has an explicit alternative-evidence route rather than silent rejection.
Gate: Evidence is complete or an alternative is agreed
Owner: Resources & Circular Industry CommissionAgree technical handoffs
Ask Main Belt Commonwealth for the finding within its own powers. The consultation records the specific unresolved question, evidence version and requested response.
Gate: A specialist finding is recorded
Owner: Main Belt CommonwealthTest reserves and failure response
Resource custody does not confer sovereignty over a celestial body Publish or privately communicate the resolution, including dissent and consent limits.
Gate: The stated safeguard is resolved
Owner: Planetary Protection AuthorityIssue the operating conditions
An activity license with benefit-sharing and closure obligations, not celestial ownership. The decision also names the accountable official role, effective event, conditions, review office and follow-up duties.
Gate: Reasons, conditions and review route are available
Owner: Resources & Circular Industry CommissionMaintain, suspend or retire
Preserve the source record, decision reasons and conditions for license asteroid extraction activity. A service complaint routes to the Ombudsman; a contested legal restriction routes to the Union Court.
Gate: Follow-up owner and record custody are named
Owner: Union Ombudsman
Exceptions and alternate routes
Required evidence is unavailable
Record the missing item and propose a witness, existing register reference or independently verified substitute. The completeness review remains open.
Interplanetary communication is interrupted
Record local receipt time and the delegated action available. Preserve a mirrored log for later reconciliation; do not invent a remote approval.
An adverse finding affects the requester
Provide the finding, allow a response, disclose the review route and preserve essential service continuity where applicable.
Institutional interfaces
Asteroid communities and working habitats across the main belt; Ceres has its own local district.
Protects shared environments and ensures industry accounts for cumulative impacts.
Makes labor rights portable between worlds and protects workers in dangerous or isolated settings.
Protects potential life, scientific evidence and inhabited biospheres from contamination.
Start the record
Prepare a requestThe assessment behind the stage diagram
Reviewers obtain competent environmental, protection and worker findings, disclose community benefits and record the funded closure or safe-retirement duty.
The footprint, material custody and end-of-activity plan identify the proposal. Resource recovery does not confer ownership of the celestial body or government over its residents.
Possible decisions and what follows
A conditional activity instrument, revised footprint, further evidence or refusal.
Changes in processing, area, sponsor or custody reopen the relevant scope. Sold material does not discharge the originating closure obligation.
Duties after the finding
Keep the scope accurate
Tell the receiving office about a material change in location, activity, operator, record custodian or requested result. The original receipt remains in the history.
Respect source custody
Provide purpose-specific references and authorised representations. Personal, clinical, commercial and protected scientific records have different access scopes.
Respond to a qualified finding
Read the conditions and the institution that owns them. A request for further evidence identifies the specific unresolved issue and the route for an alternative.
Preserve the follow-up
Changes in processing, area, sponsor or custody reopen the relevant scope. Sold material does not discharge the originating closure obligation.
Disagreement, assistance and evidence alternatives
A completeness query names the unresolved evidence and the alternative the receiving office can assess. An administrative complaint concerns service handling; a legal appeal concerns a finding and its competent remedy. A public petition asks a representative institution to examine a wider issue.