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Earlier today, a piece of #OrbitalDebris or #SpaceJunk came within a quarter mile of the International Space Station. The ISS was able to move out of the path, but our use of orbital space is becoming more congested. Orbital space is a shared resource - a global #commons. I wrote about how Ostrom's principles for commons governance might apply to space resources here:
https://urbanresilience.medium.com/congested-contested-and-competitive-are-we-running-out-of-room-in-outer-space-9bc94f96c078