alt Hacker NewsAt some point, nations are going to claim the orbital space above them as national territory and develop technology to shoot down violators.
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FabCH • today at 6:14 PM
ASAT already exists and multiple countries have already shot down (their own, defunct) satellites.
That would be fairly nonsense. There's _very_ few orbits that can stick over a particular place, and it's only places on the equator. We'd be giving up 99+% of useful orbits.