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My brow raised when you said the share word. I just don’t see it happening because people are greedy. And then the minute some small country decides it wants to
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My brow raised when you said the share word. I just don’t see it happening because people are greedy. And then the minute some small country decides it wants to enter the space will they be allowed? How will space be allocated to players late in the game is what I am asking?
- istinetz 6y agoAnd what about countries such as Iran? Somehow I prefer a world with lots of space junk over a world in which the US effectively controls who gets access to space. I honestly can't imagine an international organization that is fair in the least in allocation of space trajectories. See the UN, WTO, WHO, the Worldbank... No thanks.
- contingencies 6y agoIt is a shame that geopolitically insightful comments are downvoted. Politics and technology are deeply intertwined. Perhaps China and Russia passively protect Iran's space interests.
- lmilcin 6y agoSpace is limited and we share it whether we like it or not. In case of physical landmass we have borders. But in case of seas we have international treaties that describe sphere of influence of each country and what they are and are not allowed to do depending on some very arbitrary rules. If you think about it, most of Earth surface is actually shared between countries, ie. there is not single country having exclusive access over it. In case of electromagnetic spectrum we have other international treaties where countries agreed on how to share it so that they don't step on each other. I don't understand why you don't like the word "share" since we are already sharing so much.
- acvny 6y agoSpace is limited :D
- lmilcin 6y agoActually, yes. Space in which we can put Earth satellites is limited and you can even calculate its volume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
- colejohnson66 6y agoIs this a pun?
- isoprophlex 6y agoThe collision of space (the universe) and space (room to put things)? I think?
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- dr_orpheus 6y agoSharing of satellites does happen in some senses already. These tend to be large satellites with significant power/data resources that can afford to host an extra payload. Some examples: 1. TCTE is a NASA instrument capturing solar radiance data hosted on an Air Force satellite: https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/missions-projects/quick-facts-tcte/ https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/missions-projects/quick-facts... 2. The US military uses bandwidth of commercial communications satellites. Note, the article is actually about how they can't do it very well and want to get better so I will admit this is a bit contradictory to my point. https://spacenews.com/to-predict-the-future-of-military-satellite-communications-follow-the-terminals/ https://spacenews.com/to-predict-the-future-of-military-sate...
- anigbrowl 6y agoI just don’t see it happening because people are greedy. People aren't uniformly greedy though. Some are 'I win when you lose' (maybe 30%), some are 'win win' entrepreneur types (15-20%), a similar proportion are 'insurance buyers', and some are natural volunteers. Perhaps the solution is to develop strategies that yield modest but reliable reward for the largest number, while frustrating the greedy.