Experts from Australia’s Flinders University are calling for a step up in the regulation of space activities amidst the rapidly evolving commercial use of space and growing reports of space debris found in several places around the globe.
In a recent report—titled Low Earth Orbit, Satellite Constellations and Regulation—governments are asked to pay closer attention to the growing use of low-Earth orbit (LEO), with experts particularly concerned about the huge commercial interest in satellite mega-constellations in that space.
The LEO is an orbital region up to an altitude of 2,000km and is considered close enough to Earth for convenient transportation, communication and observation. It is the region in which the International Space Station currently orbits and where commercial space traffic, mostly in the form of satellites, is rapidly increasing….