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Originally Posted by Rochard
Very interesting post. And before I had read your entire post I too was thinking of Antarctica and the treaties involved there.
Very interesting article about "space law": https://www.space.com/33440-space-law.html
In the past (meaning a long long time ago, before Baddog) explorers would sale to a land and declare ownership for their country. In some cases, they declared ownership of land that was already occupied or land that is already claimed by another country. In some cases an explorer would claim "land" for one country, and then that country would never put a settlement there (or would put a settlement there for a short period), and then another explorer would return decades later and claim it for their country even though it was already claimed. The Falklands Islands is a good example.
We have treaties in place that say one nation cannot claim a moon or planet. On the other hand, tradition has always been that the first country to a "new land" who puts in a settlement there has legal right to that. Yet... No one imagines that one country can own the moon, or own Mars.
Taking all of that into consideration.... Such treaties are unfair to other countries who have no claims....
As for space junk.... Yikes. Someone needs to clean that shit up. |
Yes, history, you get it !
I am sorry to predict, if you did not read between the lines of what I was kinda saying...
Company's are the ones that will be making claims to their operations.
We don't really have definitions for this.
This is the only reason I can sympathize with the Russian actions if they are true to fact.
Who will police it and how ? Valid questions cause you know it's going to happen.
Like data security, if you wait for it to be a issue, it's to late !
Just FYI on space junk....
We launched more satellites in orbit to the earth the last 9 years, as all the years in previous history. It is accelerating at a pace that is beyond belief because you have a dozen private company's here in the us and a dozen more nations actively doing the same.
It is inevitable that a incident is going to happen in our lifetime that is a non-intentional action that is going to destroy the entire fleet of satellites from all nations.
cubesat's are the thing now and everyone is launching them.
Could be over 500 launched this year.
Some quick data (not the best)
According to UNOOSA, in history a total of 8 378 objects have been launched into space. Currently, 4 994 are still in orbit
https://www.pixalytics.com/satellite...ng-earth-2019/