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At what point will this be cheap enough that we could crowdfund enough satellites to build an Internet that can't be taken down with conventional means? What r
by kingcharles 5y ago
At what point will this be cheap enough that we could crowdfund enough satellites to build an Internet that can't be taken down with conventional means?
What rights does my satellite have? Is it like ships, that they must be registered to a nation-state? Or is it total anarchy? e.g. If I am ISIS can I launch a satellite filled with recruitment videos and have it essentially outside the jurisdiction of any country?
- detaro 5y agoThere's a pile of international treaties on this, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty#Responsibility_for_activities_in_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty#Responsibil...
- walrus01 5y ago> If I am ISIS can I launch a satellite filled with recruitment videos and have it essentially outside the jurisdiction of any country? sure, in this highly unlikely scenario, if you take into account that the likely result would be the USA air-striking your launch facility into rubble, which is big and fragile. developing a launch vehicle that can send a 200-300kg payload into low earth orbit on short notice is pretty much the same thing as developing an ICBM, which the nuclear power nation states of the world tend to frown upon.