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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: question on privately funded space colonization
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.134019.14579@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <C0GxFn.9x.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:40:19 GMT
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- In article <C0GxFn.9x.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
-
- >If it's the principle of eminent domain that you're worried about, then
- >yes, that could theoretically happen. But the same applies to activities
- >on the Earth.
-
- No, it's worse than that. For example, up untill a few weeks ago government
- policy made it impossible to have a private remote sensing. Under the old
- policy, the DoC could grant a licence for a satellite but then later
- could revoke it for any reason. Nobody is going to invest in remote
- sensing under these conditions.
-
- BTW, the first private remove sensing licence was issued on Jan 4 to
- Wroldview. This was made possible by the commercial space additions
- to the NASA authorization. The commercial additions themselves where
- made possible by the space activists who worked to get it and the
- Omnibus Commercial Space Act passed.
-
- Allen
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