Principles of the Aestraeus Accords: Peaceful Purposes: Activities must only be for peaceful, cooperative purposes. Transparency: Signatories agree to share their exploration plans and scientific data openly to avoid misunderstandings and secretive action. Interoperability: Nations will make their space systems compatible with each other to support easier cooperation and emergency assistance. Emergency Assistance: Signatories promise to help personnel in space unconditionally. Space Resource Management: Countries can extract and use resources (water, gold, platinum, etc.) on the Moon, asteroids, and other exoplanets and objects but in a way that respects the limited amount to not cause harmful interference. To avoid persons taking advantage of celestial extraction of resources, signatories also agree to fairly share resources obtained from space. Orbital Debris Mitigation: Nations must plan for the safe disposal of space waste and minimize debris during missions. Safety Zones: To avoid conflict, countries can create safe operational zones around their sites, however this must go through appropriate consultation of all signatories. Heritage Preservation: Historic human, robotic landing sites, artifacts, and evidence of activity are to be protected. Used AI to write most of it lol.
