It was kind of that airport has started removing the wreckage of tuesdays faithful. One way accidents, 5 people on a coast guard aircraft died when it was hit by a Japan Airlines passenger playing video, trying stripes of revealed that the coast guard plain. Ive not been pleased to be on the one by a us that says russia is using north korean missiles and is war against ukraine. Washington says drum young once russian aircraft ahmed vehicles on weapons and return information indicates that the democratic peoples republic of korea recently provided russia with Ballistic Missile launchers, several Ballistic Missiles. Coun yang and seeking military assistance from russia, including Fighter Aircraft surface to air missiles armored vehicles, Ballistic Missile production, equipment, or materials, and other advanced technologies. At this time, we do not believe that iran has delivered close range Ballistic Missiles to rush. However, United States is concerned that russian negotiations to acquire close range Ballistic Missiles from iran are actively advanced. New york city has suited a 17 Bus Companies for transporting migrants to the cities in the Southern Border State of texas. More than 33000 migrants have arrived in new york and bosses constructed by texas. In the past 2 years, new york city says it wants the best companies to pay more than 700000000. 00 towards the cost of housing, the migrants to fall apart, a lengthy guy said, ill skip this story is to be released from prison on parole. On friday, any 11 years after killing his girlfriend, the south african shots revisiting time, but his home in 2013, under the terms of his parole, he wont be allowed to leave petroleum. Womens Rights Groups have protested against his release. Powers up next to more information on the website on robotics and stay with us on august. The religious trinkets and 7 is 9. 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The says 2019 the number of such a section and has more than doubled the results of a new space, right . Private companies and governments are competing to see you can gain the upper hand in the lucrative orbital space. While this customer, its up to come on in federal plots of everyday life on the planet. Directed loans of thousands of new ones is deepening concerns about how they are being used and the potential dangers of a crowd of people them to investigate the the habits above has once again captured the minds and imaginations of those living below. The space industry is in a space renaissance on like weve not seen, even during the apollo program. This renaissance is not just a competition between super powers, but a race between billionaires for private companies is maybe the greatest opportunity in technology and communication. But there are plenty of risk involved in that as well. And this risk and reward is changing everything from the way the world connects, the way it wages war. The warren ukraine is really underlined that you know, the world space has changed and then real commercial space has changed. We sent out to investigate the vast cultural, political, and policy implications of this renaissance. Exploring how the shifting space from public to private, changing nearly every aspect of life on earth, transforming the night sky. The at the smoky check observatory unless this colorado, the alteration is already on display. With the help of telescopes, an amateur astronomers, steve mcallister, this star gazing outpost offers clear sight lights to the night. Time was the constellations. The big dipper is actually the big beer, which is ursamajor. Heres the backlog. So its a night sky. Mcallister know so well is changing. You can see la satellites tonight, maybe a satellite triangle come over. They do that fairly often. Moving across the sky like flicks of sand. There are nearly 10000 satellites circling the earth, double the number since 2019. Yeah, its a little bit annoying for someone that i grew up with. Very few satellites and b know, look up in the sky and rarely seen one and now their zip in across all the time. For astronomers, these bits of light arent unwelcome distraction, but like it or not, theyre not going anywhere. These orbiting specks markers of an entirely new era in space, 32. But none of this happens without the arrival of space x. Private Space Company owned by billionaire eagle and must win space ex last is falcon 9 spacecraft in 2015. It became the 1st private re usable rocket to successfully go to space deploy satellites and come back this break through dramatically. Cut the costs to carry and deliver satellites into orbit space. X was a catalyst and built into the whole industry. They did the audacious thing of actually saying we can lower the cost of, of launch met dash is the ceo of a radium founded during the reagan administration. The virginia based company is one of the oldest private satellite operators in the world. And they are currently the only company with a network of satellites that span the entire globe. Last year, they completed an upgrade of their entire system. All 81 satellites carried into space. By musk spoken 9 rockets. They offered for less than 500000000 to launch all my satellites. The next best bit i had was like 1300000000. This Cost Reduction has opened the space market for years for reading and had few competitors. But now the field is growing. Amazon, all of this launching their kiper network. One web is up there. Many others. Theres some, theres some networks that are being proposed right now with a 100000. 00 satellites. People who are alarmed when theyre ready and launched in late nineties, 66 satellites, and space. My god, that so many, i mean today, star link already has 4000 and space and they plan on many, many thousands more. This massive expansion part of a broad effort to collect lease or sell nearly every aspect of the 21st Century Digital world. By connecting the nearly 3000000000 global citizens currently without access to Broadband Internet. The whole tribe Olympic Peninsula of washington. More than 3 hours away from seattle is one of the 1st pilot projects for starling. Its enabled them to engage in education. Its enabled them to engage in intel, a health mark. The scone is the director of the Washington State broadband office. Were trying to fill in all of these white spaces and lighter colored spaces countys office is charged with expanding Broadband Internet access to the most rural households that remain unconnected. A task that will take years of interest structure, development from the standpoint of speed to deployment. Satellite service can clearly fill in a gap. The people that i know who have utilized starling, have found it to be life changing, its enabled them to conduct businesses that they otherwise wouldnt be able to pull satellites or transforming little america. Theyre also transforming the battlefield in the days leading up to the complex, we are showing some images of the convoy that we were able to capture. These clearly are military vehicles. Tony frazier is the executive Vice President of macs, our which provides satellite imagery to the Us Defense Department and commercial clients. In february, 2022, the companies for satellites provided a real time portrait of russias military Assembly Around ukraine. They would document early evidence of russian attacks on civilians. We began to capture and chair, evidence of artillery being fired, indiscreetly to civilian locations. Here is an image over dine airport and hospitable ukraine. The surveillance capability was not lost and the russians when they 1st ran, they also did a cyber attack against bias that ground terminals because they wanted the disruption key training in communications. Victoria simpson is the Washington Office director of the secure World Foundation, a private organization that works to promote space sustainability and peaceful uses about our space. They also disrupt a lot of communications that a good chunk of europe. I took out tens of thousands of terminals, rushes vice out, attack me clear that the rules of engagement had changed. More now included private space companies. Most notably beyond most space x in sterling just 2 days into the russian attack, ukraines minister of Digital Transformation made a 140 character plea to e. One must writing. While your rockets successfully land from space, russian rockets attack ukrainian civilian people. We ask you to provide ukraine with starling stations that same day. Musk responded, startling service is now active in ukraine. More than 42000 sterling terminals are now being used in ukraine for everything from communication for artillery teams to internet for hospitals. But there are concerns about sterlings outside impact on the war. Most notably that a private company, controlled by the worlds wealthiest person, holds so much power. The connection to star link to wage war has been limited in ukraine. The Company Publicly stated that it took steps to prevent sterling from being used for long range drones. Drugs and Ukrainian Forces have reported some loss of Sterling Service during counter offensive into russian hill territory. This happening around the time space x was complaining about the estimated 400000000. 00 a year. It cost to maintain the service and threatening to cut it off. If the pentagon didnt pick up the tab, theres also been report, you know, that mosque prevented his darling service from being used for a critical Ukrainian Drone attack on russias black, safely claim. Most recently confirmed us was kind of the best phone on the rise of big stuff. So we really do to really proactively take part in a major export in june depending on announced a deal with space ext underwrite starling service to ukraine. The concerns remain. So countries like to like russia, they say, well, perhaps a company like star link, its more of a Us Government entities and a commercial entity. In fact, the satellite space race is potentially giving private companies and unprecedented ability to shape military conflict in geo politics. We wanted to speak with masking space x about that, but they did not respond to our request for an interview with a theres intertwining of commercial space of National Security space. Just shows how much were interwoven with each other and much as we try and say, well this is not my issue. Is it not something thats relevant to me . It definitely effects all satellites are also playing in inter green role in the ways in which those outside of the word zone are monitoring and documenting military actions that violates International Law. The joe, because we go, we travel the ukraine every day and, and we, we do so and lower or orbit that the annual raymond leads deal universities, humanitarian research lab, from sudan to ukraine, and russia. Ramons team use a satellite imagery to monitor active conflicts. Documenting as troops or militias, burn villages, bomb hospitals, and display civilians. We are basically a digital version of the crime scene investigators, but were not doing it on the ground of plastic bags. Were doing it from space. In february, the team exposed in alleged russian operation illegally relocating and re settling thousands of ukrainian children. Prussian officials were taking selfies in front of the buses with the kids and as they were going to the camps. And so from that, we were able to get many data about the gps location of those buses. So we started to use satellites at that point to identify and confirm precise gps locations of the re educational camps for many of the kids are being held and other facilities, including Psychiatric Hospital and what, whats called family centers. One months later, the International Criminal court issued a warrant for the rest of the latter been putting it accused the russian president and his subordinates of unlawfully deporting and transferring children. Actually, the court says constitute a war crime. It is for bitten by International Law for up to 5 powers to transfer it severely assumed territory. They leave in 2 of their territories, especially rejects the allegations, especially privately on satellites and including some launched and recent years have helped gather evidence to back up these claims the this, the satellites combined with cloud computing, combined with advancements and Artificial Intelligence analytics in the past we, we were playing one instrument in the orchestra like the cello, now were playing the orchestra. This all goes back to the 1st beads from the russian sputnik satellite in 1957, but became more sophisticated in early sixtys during the 1st space race. The personal satisfaction to participate on august 12th, 1960 president dwight eisenhower, his words were transmitted from california and reflected off a massive balloon called echo one to a laboratory station in hollandale, new jersey. Taking off the Satellite Communications era. This experiment and communication judge mike contemporary standards. The early days of satellite imagery wasnt even cruder exercise. Before we had Digital Radio download, they literally had a canister film that had to be shot out of the satellite in, caught by a plane at high altitude. And it would come with a scoop net and they had to catch it. And then that in the 19 sixtys, the us air force operated a spice Satellite Program known as corona. Using a panoramic camera, the satellite took the 1st detailed photographs from space. It was completely analog dave, catherine images and film dropped those canisters, and then it would take weeks to process the data to be able to provide insight. Now or in a moment where we, we are downloading terabytes beyond all of the imagery that was collected in that era. Every day, were now at daily refresh where the surface of the earth can technically be painted every day. Are these paintings largely from private satellites have not only opened our understanding of the earth, but introduced an array of ethical questions. You can type the make and model of a car very easily on very High Resolution imagery. What if were talking about Domestic Abuse or those wind to see if his or her former partner has a new romantic interest . You can now track that car. Open data may be great if youre sitting in downtown San Francisco and a Blue Bottle Coffee shop. But for the most Vulnerable People on the planet open data is a potential nightmare scenario in the sense that data is power. Data is people this daily wage of open data is primarily the results of the increasing frequency and declining costs of a launch. Pioneered by space ex today, there was intense competition to drive down the costs even further. In the desert of new mexico spin launch, a California Based Company is working on a way to take rockets out of the launch process altogether. And weve been relying upon rockets as the only means of transporting payloads into earth orbit for the last 70 years. And rockets are very complicated. They are very expensive and theyre very inefficient. C, e o. Jonathan gainey and his company have assembled what they call a sub orbital accelerator and electrically powered kinetic launch system that spins a rocket like projectile at high velocity inside of the vacuum chamber to launch by greatly reducing the need for rocket fuel and allowing for bigger payloads why do each launch for a few 100000. 00 . So were talking orders of magnitude lower costs than any other launch system out there. Danny says they are currently looking for a location to host their much larger and commercially ready orbital accelerator which will be capable of reaching space. We can launch and you know, as little as a few days of notice what you have as a customer. Theres a much more turnkey solution you couple that with the low cost small satellites that the industry is now producing. What you have is really an overhaul of access to space. You know, these companies now instead of taking a decade and billions of dollars to deploy large scale satellite constellations in low earth orbit can now do so. You know, for single digit millions. But this drive to make access to space even more affordable is paving the way for a new Telecommunications Land rush that points to the potential for catastrophic collisions and space. In 2009, a defunct russian satellite collided within a reading and satellite, just as they were crossing over northern siberia. I got a call from my chief satellite officer at the time and he said, i have bad news and worse news, which do you want 1st. And i said, whats the bad news . And he said, we lost track of our satellite, se 33. 00 somewhere over siberia. I sure whats the worst . That losing said it could have ran into something else. And i said, okay, im not, im not experienced with this. How often does that happen . And he said its never happened in the history of space flight since, but next it, any 2 things in space inadvertently ran into each other. The collision destroyed both satellites, scattering 1800. 00 pieces of debris into low earth orbit. That really did change the industry at the time because it was sort of a shock that the sort of thing could happen in that space wasnt so big that 2 things could inadvertently run into each other. And the reasons why they did it was because we couldnt, we could have easily moved the satellite, but we didnt have good information to move it before that after the collision, industry and government officials began to track and share information about the orbital path of satellites. Then in 2020, the newly formed Us Space Force began operating the space fence surveillance system, a 1500000000. 00 radar system capable of tracking objects in space as small as a marble, even with the vastness of space without some sort of organization were going to see more more issues. Melanie strickland, a former air force officer, is a co founder of slingshot aerospace, a Texas Based Company that provides navigational support for the public and private space industry. Slingshot uses information from commercial satellites in their slingshot beacon surface, which acts as an air Traffic Control for space. Helping to avoid collisions with another satellite or large piece of space. Debris are very busy, very, very busy. Theyve got a 93 percent of satellites and lower for, but leveraging slingshot beacon today to day conflict. Their space Flight Operations and ensure that they dont have any critical conjunctions. But slingshot is not working with a complete data set. The world satellite operators from the us to china as a currently not operating under a cooperative and standardized space Traffic Management system. Today, national and regional entities wanting to space activities with different sets of standards, best practices, definitions, languages, and modes of inter operability. For the past 5 years, the secure World Foundation has gathered leaders from the private space sector and the worlds governments in an attempt to foster coordination. Last year they met new york, the undersecretary general for policy at the united nations. Guy ryder gave the opening keynote address. If we cannot agree on how to coordinate space Traffic Management, we risk both the safety and the sustainability of space through accidents. It will lead to the destruction of all of its an worryingly, the breach of peace and security. In outer space among the last years, attendees, richard del bell. Im the director of the us office of space commerce, the Agency Responsible for commercial space policy in the United States. Its very difficult to compare to separately, completely separately derived solutions. So you get into a, what is truth problem . As weve recently had examples for a very concrete example with china, where china had alleged that certain us satellite operators were flying too close to their space station. Our data indicated that it was not true. And so without worrying about who is right or who is wrong, this is the kind of confusion that im, that im talking about where 2 operators, maybe both with the very best of intentions. Come to a disagreement because they dont understand how theyre each of their systems works. It last year, some new york, a main point of discussion was the need for a more to, for you on the testing of anti satellite missiles are so called a set tests in 2021 rush, it became the latest country to test anti satellite weapons firing a missile into a long, defunct sleet era satellite, sending more than 1500 new pieces of debris into orbit. Well, 1st of all, to make knowledge of the us has done a set of tests in the past, decided that this is not an advisable course. The russians did one very recently the chinese and the indians also did a sad test, whatever the port politics are between countries. This is just potentially destroying an environment for a test. I know to vote in december of last year, 155 nations voted in favor of a Un Resolution encouraging nations not to conduct an anti satellite test. 9, oppose the measure, including russia. China has been the upstream but even with an agreed upon moratorium on anti satellite testing, a mess may be coming by way of what is known as the counselor syndrome. The counselor syndrome is like what you saw in the movie gravity. Its a debris on debris event. Its catastrophic and object causes debris that debris splatters and space hitting other objects causing more than debris and more debris to get a waterfall. Depending on the altitude those debris could stay up there for hundreds of years or tens of years. And this would not only increase the possibility of collisions, but could prevent human access to space entirely. In the early days, we had a cold war mentality with very limited objects and space. But now were to uh, fundamentally different came with dental trogie is the chief scientist to comstock a company that predicts the paths of optics. An orbit. Comstock has created a number of models of what the earth orbit will look like. As the satellite population continues to grow. Those videos give you an appreciation for just how many objects could be launched and active in space. And the problem with these fragmentation advances. It continues to introduce more and more of these fragments that we now have to track. And if you think of sort of running to your car and its just barely sprinkling, you can kind of run almost between the drops. If you go really fast, if its raining a lot, you cant, youre just gonna get hit by something. Melanie strickland says this scenario can be avoided, but only if efforts are made to organize space traffic instead of tipping point. And we have a small window of opportunity to curtail um, you know, a catastrophic debris and debris event. Most human beings on the surface or enabled by the sunlight capabilities. Well, theres the blue dot on your phone, the Navigation Systems that you use. Transportation, global transportation, whether Disaster Response and so a day without space because traffic to the human race, wed see ourselves go back in time to the fiftys or before as the finding consensus in space will require a dramatic shift in consensus on the ground. It will also require getting a handle on the new power of private satellite operators and how to regulate them. Historically space was dominated by nation states. And if i had a concern about other activities and space, we would take it to the united nations. But now, you know, when the biggest actors in space is not a national government, its a commercial actor. And so if you have concerns about what space x is doing and you take it to the Us Government, you take it to the united nations. Where do you take this sort of concerns and how do you discussing sort of things so much the implications of the new satellite space race are far reaching, not only in space on, but here on the ground. With our naked eye, were supposed to be able to see about a 1000 stars. So now if you add another, lets just say 60000. 00 satellites. So suddenly youth increased to star count 60 full, great. So 6000 is gonna 60000 is gonna be a different sky. The the latest news, as it breaks echo is, is not only concerned about the possibility of more cause. And the reason its worry take good approximates with detailed coverage less than 2 weeks. Central office being criticized, behaving more like a number of precedents from around the world since the start of the war, a vast number of small a voluntary groups have sprung, get to big, big zones, have the result of fig organizations. The unsettled tax upfront takes on the biggest phase of context to what is happening now. It is of complex 3 question, question of 5 upfront without a 0 unique perspective to this voice for peace is the way for me to take action voices. 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