| ▲ | w10-1 5 hours ago | |
This seems necessary and desirable, but pretty much a government function. I can't see how simple good-faith cooperation prevents abuse. Possible abuses: (1) Use the information to actually interfere or collide with satellites (2) Use the information to track secret satellites by excluding traces from non-secret ones (3) Free riders gaining secondary access without providing data (4) Use access to this when traffic is more contended to enforce hegemony (5) Anti-competitive coordination under the rubric of cooperation And while the system might be helpful under ordinary peacetime conditions, will it make a war more or less destructive? It's silly that NASA is planning for Mars and the moon but hasn't already solved this coordination problem on a world scale. | ||
| ▲ | notahacker 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
NASA already provides publicly accessible tracking data. They don't have 30,000 star trackers in orbit though, whereas the world's largest satellite constellation does and therefore has a lot more data points. | ||
| ▲ | nlitened 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
As far as I understand, bad faith actors already have wide possibilities for disruption and abuse. This system allows for better good-faith coordination for mutual benefit. | ||