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w10-1today at 9:40 AM1 replyview on HN

This seems necessary and desirable, but pretty much a government function. I can't see how simple good-faith cooperation prevents abuse.

Possible abuses:

(1) Use the information to actually interfere or collide with satellites

(2) Use the information to track secret satellites by excluding traces from non-secret ones

(3) Free riders gaining secondary access without providing data

(4) Use access to this when traffic is more contended to enforce hegemony

(5) Anti-competitive coordination under the rubric of cooperation

And while the system might be helpful under ordinary peacetime conditions, will it make a war more or less destructive?

It's silly that NASA is planning for Mars and the moon but hasn't already solved this coordination problem on a world scale.


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nlitenedtoday at 10:02 AM

As far as I understand, bad faith actors already have wide possibilities for disruption and abuse. This system allows for better good-faith coordination for mutual benefit.