Some questions, When a company or a country decides to launch a new satellite into space do they let everybody else know where its orbit is going to be? How about American companies? Do they have to apply with NASA for a certain orbital plane? Are there restricted areas where nobody puts a satellite--like in the plane of the ISS? Since so much is being put into orbit I would think that significant forethought needs to be done about where the satellites are going to be one compared to another. Then as they decay the orbit changes. I would think that it is becoming quite difficult to manage although maybe the density is so low it isn't a significant threat yet. Tom Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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