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Comment by MichaelZuo

10 hours ago

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.

  > all the orbits under 500 km are also annulled and put up for negotiation

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.