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In article <C0GxFn.9x.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:

>If it's the principle of eminent domain that you're worried about, then
>yes, that could theoretically happen. But the same applies to activities
>on the Earth.

No, it's worse than that. For example, up untill a few weeks ago government
policy made it impossible to have a private remote sensing. Under the old
policy, the DoC could grant a licence for a satellite but then later
could revoke it for any reason. Nobody is going to invest in remote
sensing under these conditions.

BTW, the first private remove sensing licence was issued on Jan 4 to
Wroldview. This was made possible by the commercial space additions
to the NASA authorization. The commercial additions themselves where
made possible by the space activists who worked to get it and the
Omnibus Commercial Space Act passed.

  Allen
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