Comment by schiffern

1 day ago

  > 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.