The portion of space with usable orbital paths is much, much smaller. One rogue rocket with a poor/flawed understanding of that could endanger several other satellites. Many systems already in orbit lack the redundancy to handle a major collision. And any collision in orbit could ruin the usability of a much larger section of space. 

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:18 PM, dpreed@deepplum.com <dpreed@deepplum.com> wrote:

Well, that may be the case, but it's a non-scalable and highly corruptible system. IMO it's probably unnecesary, too. Space is actually quite big.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jim Gettys" <jg@freedesktop.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:26pm
To: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] spacebee

I do believe that the international space treaties require our government to control all launches.
Launching satellites without permission is a big no-no.
Note that according to the article, it is collision risk, rather than radio radiation, that is the issue here.
Jim

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
This is awesome. The FCC (whic still doesn't "get" spread spectrum
radio) just discovered it doesn't have authority over the airwaves of
the whole planet.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/fcc-accuses-stealthy-startup-of-launching-rogue-satellites

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