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97 Joel D. Scheraga, “Establishing Property Rights in Outer Space,” 6 Cato Journal, 1987 at 891.
98 Ibid.
99 Col. John E. Hyten, USAF, “A Sea of Peace or a eater of War? Dealing with the Inevitable
Conict in Space,” 16 Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2002 at 90, note 11. Current U.S. FCC
policies require U.S. direct broadcast satellites to be spaced nine degrees apart, placing greater
constraint on the availability of orbital slots in GEO; see Federal Communications Commission,
“DBS Spacing,” online: www.fcc.gov/ib/sd/dbs_spacing.
100 Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union, Art. 33, para. 2.
101 Ram Jakhu, “Legal Issues of Satellite Telecommunications, the Geostationary Orbit, and Space
Debris,” 5(2) Astropolitics, 2007 at 182.
102 International Telecommunication Union, Schedule of processing charges to be applied to satellite
network lings received by the Radiocommunication Bureau on or after 17 November 2007, online:
www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/Documents/Decision%20482(C2008)-E.pdf.
103 Ram Jakhu, “Legal Issues of Satellite Telecommunications, the Geostationary Orbit, and Space
Debris,” 5(2) Astropolitics, 2007 at 182-183.
104 Peter de Selding, “SES Details Plan to Avert Interference by Failed Intelsat Craft,” Space News, 17
May 2010, online: www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/100517-ses-plan-avert-interference.html.
105 Peter de Selding, “Intelsat, SES Safely Negotiate Passage of Wayward Craft,” Space News, 3 June
2010, online: http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/100603-intelsat-ses-negotiate-waywardcraft.html.
106 Ibid.
107 Anthony Watts, “‘Zombie’ satellite shuts down critical NOAA NWS systems overnight,” Watts Up
With at, 6 December 2010, online: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/06/zombie-satelliteshuts-down-critical-noaa-nws-systems-overnight.
108 Ibid.
109 NOAA Notice DM11-10.05, 6 December 2010, online: www.nws.noaa.gov/dm-cgi-bin/chgshow.
pl?fn=DMPD111005.txt.
110 Report to the 56th Meeting of the Radio Regulations Board, ITU document RRB11-1/3-E, 1 March
2011.
111 Ibid.
112 NASA, “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids,” NASA Near Earth Object Program, 22 July 2008,
online: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pha.html.
113 Russell Schweickart, “e Asteroid Impact reat: Decisions Upcoming,” presentation to the 37th COSPAR Scientic Assembly, Montreal, Quebec, July 2008.
114 NASA, “Study to Determine the Feasibility of Extending the Search for Near-Earth Objects to
Smaller Limiting Diameters,” Near-Earth Object Science Denition Team, 22 August 2003 at iv,
online: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/neoreport030825.pdf.
115 Ibid.
116 NASA, “NEO Discovery Statistics,” Near Earth Object Program, online: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
stats.
117 Russell Schweickart, “e Asteroid Impact reat: Decisions Upcoming,” presentation to the 37th
COSPAR Scientic Assembly, Montreal, Quebec, July 2008.
118 Ibid.
119 Marcia Smith, “White House Species Agency Responsibilities for NEO reats,” Space Policy
Online, 23 October 2010, online: www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=1184:white-house-species-agency-responsibilities-for-neo-threats&
catid=67:news&Itemid=27.
120 e White House, “OSTP Responses to Congress on Near-Earth Objects,” Resource Library, Oce
of Science and Technology Policy, 15 October 2010, online: www.whitehouse.gov/administration/
eop/ostp/library/docsreports.
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