[denysvitali]

I'm not an expert in this field, but I have the feeling that 3k satellites in orbit is a small percentage of what we have at the moment.

What still amazes me is that the orbit seems to not be owned by any country. Reading from another comment it looks like the FCC regulated this - but I'm still confused since it covers multiple countries, and I'm pretty sure not everyone had a saying in whether they agreed on this.

As a possible future user, it's still spectacular though.

[chrisco255]

No country owns space. There is no formal agreement on where airspace for a country ends but informally it is up to the extent of Earth's atmosphere.

[Etherlord87]

> informally it is up to the extent of Earth's atmosphere.

And where does the atmosphere end? :) From Wikipedia[1]:

Exosphere: 700 to 10,000 km (440 to 6,200 miles)

The exosphere is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere (though it is so tenuous that some scientists consider it to be part of interplanetary space rather than part of the atmosphere).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth

[chrisco255]

Right, it's merely a convention at this point. It's also been the case that no country has really escalated LEO warfare against another country at this point. Until then it's mere courtesy between countries. We don't quite have a solid line like we do with international waters.

[Rebelgecko]

>I have the feeling that 3k satellites in orbit is a small percentage of what we have at the moment.

It's less than half, but not by that much.

[inemesitaffia]

There's the ITU