Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of ‘near space’
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AvcalmQ t1_j92uk4o wrote
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It's the defined transition, you'd be arguing with the wrong guy on that.
I maybe should've said "up to 100km isn't space" but that's not an argument I thought I'd have had to have, tbh.
Science-Compliance t1_j92wz94 wrote
The US considers anything past 50 miles in altitude to be space, and, in a manner of definition, they're not necessarily wrong. You can do more than one orbit at this altitude. "Space" is a human construct, so any definition is really going to fit human needs. In any case, 60,000 feet is not "space" by any reasonable definition.
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