Ask HN: Who Owns Atmosphere of Earth?

6 points by yogeshlor 6 years ago | 3 comments

I'm recently seeing lot of news about launch of small satellites in atmosphere for may different reasons SpaceX one of them organization is sending 30,000 of these. "U.S. Federal Communications Commission" approved partial of these launches. Does that mean atmosphere is owned by "U.S. Federal Communications Commission"? How does it work with space above countries around the world?

vectorEQ 6 years ago |

it wont answer your question ,but this might interest your: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Committee_on_th...

As you can see, even super unaligned countries such as Iran/Iraq are in this committee and effort is i think made to give everyone a say.

matthewheath 6 years ago |

No one owns space — the Outer Space Treaty 1967 declared that space is free and open to exploration by all nations and that claims of national sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body are banned.

Most countries, but not all of them, have ratified the treaty.

meiraleal 6 years ago |

the same country that in practice owns the seas with the "freedom of navigation".