Internationalized Smallsat Rules Needed: Professor

China's acknowledging importance of space safety is good, and preserving the space commons requires international agreements on regulations and procedures, blogged Larry Press, a professor of information systems at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Saturday, he recapped a notice from China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense laying out smallsat regulations, including that satellites below 2,000 km deorbit within 25 years of the end of mission and those over 2,000 km rise to a graveyard orbit.