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Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoCompetition good.
- shakna 9mo agoKessler bad.
- ChrisArchitect 9mo agoRelated today: Arianespace launches 32 Amazon Leo satellites with the first Ariane 64 https://newsroom.arianespace.com/arianespace-successfully-launches-32-amazon-leo-satellites-with-the-first-ariane-64 https://newsroom.arianespace.com/arianespace-successfully-la... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995115)
- tecoholic 9mo agoIt’s amazing how one company gets approval from one country and will have 1000s of objects across the planet. Shouldn’t we have an international body of some sort at this point?
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoI believe this framework already exists, and it is administered by the ITU.
- cheonn638 9mo ago[flagged]
- r14c 9mo agoI think the idea would be to create a treaty framework and have candidate nations vote internally on whether to join. There's a clear benefit to coordinating space activity (imo), but I don't think the current US admin sees international cooperation as a net good. Even historically, the US tends not to be very democratic about foreign policy choices.
- inemesitaffia 9mo agoIt was already done before you were born.
- wiredpancake 9mo ago[dead]
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoAmerican supremacy exceptionalism.
- 486sx33 9mo ago[dead]