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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (3951)	4/18/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Starboard You Bastards! Thanks for helping out RS. Geostationary satellites are a special case. So I guess from what you are saying, if orbits weren't controlled in the LEO world, there would certainly be so many crashes that it would be uneconomic. Since there is a LOT of space and 1000s of km of altitude, I'd have thought the chance of crashes isn't very good and consequences not that bad for orbital planes. But supposing the chances are so great and the costs so high that control is essential, then how about something like ocean sailing rules or software radio rules = you can use any ocean path you like and any spectrum you like, but you have to give way to the right? So a satellite would be automatically licensed for the new orbital plane provided that it isn't intersecting with another satellite. Only if it would collide with another satellite, or go so close that it would be dodgy, would a license not be issued. Sailors traditionally scream at each other "Starboard you bastards" when drunken or otherwise wayward yachties look as though they are not giving way appropriately; in the less genteel and crowded harbours of Auckland anyway, if not the hallowed waters of San Diego. In the Americas Cup race, the give way rule is taken to a very close limit - inches rather than metres. The same could apply to space. John Stichnoth made a good suggestion along these lines. He thought the orbits wouldn't be random, but I guess that after 7 or 10 years of drifting, they'll be looking fairly random and patterns would be hard to discern if not tightly controlled. Nevertheless, the orbits could be monitored and constantly relicensed. Computers can do these things quickly - no need for a monthly meeting of a relicensing committee of the United Nations Orbit Management Office of Bureaucrats at great expense to everyone. Like the Satellite Jockey Featherbedding Union, the 'United Nations Orbit Management Office of Bureaucrats' would object to their First Class Airline and Hotel Jamborees being cancelled. They would not like this idea one bit! So I take your point that prangs in space are not good, but how about that for a suggestion? Looks like a live one to me! Maurice