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I’m not too familiar with the intricacies of each major orbital tranche beyond their name: LEO, GEO, NEO etc. Similar to how the FCC in the USA divides bands on

• T-A 5y ago
  > can we not sub-divide tranches like LEO into N components and majorly fine those whose satellites deviate? Not realistically. Jurisdiction aside (are you going to fine Russian, Chinese, Indian etc satellites for not respecting US rules?) this would restrict allowable orbits beyond reason. They would all have to be circular and at the same inclination (within each "shell", defined by its altitude), or they would inevitably cross each other. You could try to define some fixed volumes where crossings are allowed, but that would only add a small subset of orbits (sun-synchronous, unless the crossing volumes are allowed to move around relative to Earth's surface) and concentrate collision risk into those volumes - and increase it, since average distances would be correspondingly smaller.