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#PRC: What is airspace, near space, outer space? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center?

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#PRC: What is airspace, near space, outer space? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-and-mystery-objects-raise-question-of-who-controls-near-space-8645b9aa



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Objects over North America in these last days bring the President of the United States to

0:43.1

clarify future policy for the United States. The President said in part, if any object

0:50.2

presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down.

0:56.1

The question now is, where is the object?

1:00.4

Henry Sikolsky, the executive editor of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center,

1:05.6

has been educating me about airspace, near space, outer space, and how the recommendations

1:13.9

by sovereign powers over decades, this starts in the early 20th century with aircraft,

1:21.9

given us a variety of interpretations of when you can and cannot say it's your territory

1:28.6

to patrol and enforce. Henry, a very good evening to you. Airspace, near space, and outer

1:36.8

space. There's a very helpful chart in the Wall Street Journal story about near space,

1:42.9

and I read just in summary, 11 miles up is the upper limit of civil aviation traffic.

1:49.5

31 miles up is the upper limit of atmospheric buoyancy for balloons. 62 miles up is the edge

1:57.4

of near space. After that, you're in outer space, and there are more details, but that's

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