Sadia Pekkanen

Sadia Pekkanen appears in Is the moon (and its resources) up for grabs? as the expert explaining how renewed lunar exploration connects space law, resources, technology placement, and diplomacy. Her core distinction is that international space law blocks territorial ownership on the Moon, while Space Resource Extraction can still make extracted resources commercially usable.

Pekkanen frames the new lunar race as less a simple flag-planting competition than a contest over presence, rules, and sustained operations. Her comments connect Artemis 2 and the Artemis Accords to Lunar Resource Governance, safety zones, China and Russia as non-signatories, and the need for transparent rules in a hostile operating environment.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech - show context for the interview.
• Artemis 2, Artemis Accords, and NASA - mission and governance context discussed in the episode.
• Moon, Lunar Resource Governance, and Space Resource Extraction - core legal and resource questions.
• Lunar Nuclear Power and Helium-3 - energy and resource branch tied to sustained lunar presence.