Watch the Skies with Kevin Pomfret

The black letter law discussed in this episode is: Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-98/pdf/STATUTE-98-Pg3055.pdf Amended 2004 https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/PL108-492.pdf National Space Council meeting in FL https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/second-national-space-council-meeting-focuses-on-regulatory-reform-china/ Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/ Land Remote Sensing Policy (Part of National Commercial Space Program Act) https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/commercial/15uscchap82.html Strava collecting geo location data on military bases https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/ GPS Selective Availability https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/ Union of Concerned Scientists estimate of satellites https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database#.WtiuOC7waUk There are differing estimates of the number of satellites in space https://www.pixalytics.com/sats-orbiting-earth-2017/ UN Principles of Remote Sensing http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/41/a41r065.htm National and Commercial Space Programs (Title 51) http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title51&edition=prelim Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Systems 15 CFR 960 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/15/part-960 United States v. Jones 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012) https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/10-1259 Robert Draper article on surveillance and migration https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/surveillance-watching-you/ Kevin Pomfret is a Partner at Williams Mullen http://www.williamsmullen.com/people/kevin-d-pomfret