Comment by PittleyDunkin
11 hours ago
> We need viable treaties limiting development beyond 400 or 500km and we need them ten years ago.
Basically every other interest on earth is going to see this as the west exploiting space then pulling the ladder up after them. It's the same reason why hoping developing countries will stop using coal is ridiculous. We need to foot the bill to clean up after ourselves or people will just ignore us and do what they see they need to do regardless.
Yeah unless all the orbits under 500 km are also annulled and put up for negotiation too, most countries would never accept it.
And even then the negotiation process will take decades so that means no LEO satellites available for anyone for several decades.
Unnecessary. There's plenty of space (no pun intended) to operate at those altitudes, even with existing and planned satellite constellations.
The real issue is regulatory, not technical. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42199498
An HN user’s opinion doesn’t matter in the context of how countries decide in international diplomacy…?
How does this make sense? Other countries could clearly decide however they like, because they don’t need to come to the negotiating table.