By John Gravois | 01.28.24 |
A while back, Khari Johnson went to Paris to hang out with a trio of Zimbabwean law students for WIRED. He was there to watch the three women plead a case in front of a panel of international judges—a case involving some hurtling pieces of space debris, a fatal plane crash, and a geopolitical crisis. The case happened to be fictional. But it was a training exercise for a very real professional discipline, one that's bound to become more relevant in the near future—and one that's drawing surprising interest from people in the global south: outer space law.
Khari's story is one that feels truly unique, a piece of journalism you won't get anywhere else. It fills me with a certain kind of awe. If you ever feel numbed by how quickly things are changing around you here on Earth, just wait till you absorb how quickly things are changing above you, in orbit. (The number of satellites circling the planet has increased by 30 percent just in the past year.) Then marvel at how people are mobilizing to make the best of it, working to ensure that space truly becomes "the province of all mankind"—as international law says it is—and not just the province of a few billionaires like Elon Musk.
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