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ASTRONOMER friends tell me some of the brightest objects in the night sky
these days are satellites orbiting the Earth. Whether the satellites are for
communications or spying, you can’t miss them. Strange, then, that the US should
violate the spirit of the 1975 UN Convention on Registration of Objects Launched
into Outer Space. The convention requires nations to keep a registry of objects
that they launch into space, and provide the UN with a copy of the list. New
Scientist recently reported that Jonathan McDowell of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has
noted several discrepancies in…