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What entity give them this approval? Isn‘t airspace over countries to be approved by these countries? Did countries opt out?
by cmarschner 7y ago
What entity give them this approval? Isn‘t airspace over countries to be approved by these countries? Did countries opt out?
- njarboe 7y agoI don't think there is a treaty about it. These satellites are in space, not in the air. Around 100km usually is used as the boundary or, more practically, as high as your anti-aircraft missiles can go. It does not really make sense to claim everything up in a cone from your country to infinity. Multiple countries claiming different planets at different times would be weird. SpaceX got approval to launch these satellites from the FCC.
- unnouinceput 7y agoWasn't some time ago a Chinese satellite blown from their orbit by a missile? I think current technology allows you to blow stuff up from sky quite more then just 100 Km.
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- garaetjjte 7y agoSovereignty doesn't extend to space. It is one of points of Outer Space Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Some countries attempted to claim sovereignty over geostationary orbit, but failed http://djilp.org/the-bogota-declaration-and-the-curious-case-of-geostationary-orbit/ http://djilp.org/the-bogota-declaration-and-the-curious-case...