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Article | Registration Aspects of Mega-Constellations’ Satellites Under International Law |
Authors | Irina Chernykh en Andrey Zimakov |
DOI | 10.5553/IISL/2022065007007 |
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Operation of mega-constellations has become very popular in the private space industry recently. Big space companies like SpaceX or OneWeb have already started launching their satellites of mega-constellations for providing high-speed internet all over the world. For instance, satellite internet constellation ‘Starlink’ includes over 1,700 satellites; OneWeb has more than 400 satellites. Such space faring nations as China (Tianxian) and Russia (Sphere) also have plans of deployment megaconstellations. |