Ep. 671: The Consequences to Breaking Space Laws
Astronomy Cast
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The Problem With International Treaties
A big part of the outer space treaty is all about not putting nuclear weapons in space. But several times rocket sort of satellites equipped with fission reactors have gone to space. And so we see some consequences because Cosmos 954 failed, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and sprayed radioactive debris across a chunk of Canada's Yukon territory. So you think that that's the kind of thing that the outer space Treaty would attempt to deal with and you can see that they don't really have any teeth.
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