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I presume there are liability rules if your satellite hits another one. What about if your satellite makes another one waste fuel on a diversion?
by rocqua 7y ago
I presume there are liability rules if your satellite hits another one. What about if your satellite makes another one waste fuel on a diversion?
- avocado4 7y agoWould ESA satellite hit Space X or the other way around? How do they determine it?
- jsiepkes 7y agoThe ESA satellite had been on that orbit 9 months before the Spacelink satellite.
- peteretep 7y agoWhere would have jurisdiction?
- mises 7y agoI could see them going after a european company, or America going after an American company. I'm guessing the europeans are going to insist they want it done in their courts, and SpaceX is just gonna shrug and say, "Nope, not showing up." europeans can't really make an American company do much.
- peteretep 7y ago> europeans can't really make an American company do much There's very few large American companies for whom the EU is neither a huge market, nor a major location.
- mlindner 7y agoBy international space law full liability is held by the country of launch/license. The US Government would owe the ESA a full paycheck if it was to be damaged. So this is already well covered in international law.