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Bad idea. The radiocommunication satellites are also regulated by ITU: http://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/whatwedo.aspx . (You don't want two satellites too close using a too similar band for the transmission, so someone has to do the bookkeeping and the dispute resolution. Internet is a totally different problem.)


Isn't the proximity problem only a real issue for geostationary satellites? But in general I agree it's not the best idea; besides a bunch of technical problems it could always get shot down (even if unlikely)... A more realistic scenario would probably be connecting wireless mesh networks and ethernet cable networks (and sometimes fiber cables).


Regulated? How? The sky police arrest your satellite? The cool part of space is, its so big. You can really get away with a lot.


Plan a) Use an anti-satellite missile to destroy your satellite.

Plan b) Use a standard missile to destroy your ground station.

I think that the anti-satellite weapons were tested only against decoys. I don't remember a case were there was a rogue satellite and someone destroy it or the owners, but it's very difficult to argue with missile owners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon


Has this ever been demonstrated? Its figuratively a blade of grass in a meadow.

And ground station? How about hundreds of thousands of ground stations, shared by people worldwide.




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