A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding … Continue reading A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?