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The Urgent Need for Regulation of Satellite Mega-constellations in Outer Space

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Law Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19249-4

ISBN: 978-3-031-19248-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 22, 2023

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Chapter 1The Orbital Internet and the Threat to Astronomy

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 1 –4

[When SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by Elon Musk, launched the first batch of Starlink orbiters in May 2019, many astronomers were surprised to see the satellites were extremely bright. The first 60 satellites launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) would form part of a greater...
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Chapter 2The Diplomacy of Science in a Time of Geopolitical Change

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 5 –19

[On 24 May 2019, Dr. Marco Langbroek, Space Situational Awareness consultant at Leiden Observatory, filmed the first batch of Starlink satellites rising like a string of pearls in the evening sky (Fig. 1.1). The vision was so inexplicable that emergency services were inundated with reports of...
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Chapter 3The Outer Space Treaty and Responsibility Under International Law

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 21 –55

[Every generation of cellular phone network has brought significant advancement in the speed of telecommunication services and with it, cultural change. Perhaps the best measure of each successive generation of technology is not its technical bandwidth, but what it has enabled and how it has...
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Chapter 4Establishing a Governance Framework for the Orbital Internet in Outer Space

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 57 –75

[What is the underlying precursor to the space race that is now well underway? This book has positioned its analysis firmly within the context of geopolitical history for a reason: it is my view that nations without reassurance of their security will militarise. In recent years we have seen a...
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Chapter 5Towards Temperance Through Proportionality

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 77 –123

[In his seminal essay, Garrett Hardin posed an elusive challenge to jurists: “Prohibition is easy to legislate … but how do we legislate temperance?” This is perhaps the central question I have grappled with in this book. Temperance necessarily requires a balancing of the freedom of use of outer...
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Chapter 6A New Regulatory Framework for Mega-Constellations

Millwood, Scott

Pages: 125 –132

[Seventy-five years ago, US President Eisenhower made an important choice: instead of a weaponised outer space, he pursued science. It is in all our interests that tensions between the West and a rising China are managed, and the lessons of the Cold War are applied to a new century. No global...

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