Chapter Eight CONCLUSION In formulating a present and future policy for the effective operation of a SPS it is necessary to place scientific and technological facts in a political-legal context. The methodology of this White Paper has been to identify such facts. Building on such facts there has been a further search for and clarification of existing political-legal outlooks or values. Only through a combination of the best of these essentials is it possible to arrive at decisions that may have some hope of surviving for at least a short time. As new facts come on line and as new perceptions of man's needs and wants are identified there will be change. Through the application of the indicated methodology it is hoped that the change will be orderly and that it will serve basic human needs. In the context of this analysis it has become evident that the nature of the area in which a SPS might function is not perceived the same way by all observers. Thus, the linked orbit/spectrum resource has been described as limited world natural resource. While there is little reason to doubt that it is a world natural resource, there is evidence that it may not be quite so limited as proclaimed. These who have accepted the first formulation have also considered the resource to be unitary, that is, they have treated orbital slots, and the solar energy located at geostationary orbital level, as essentially one and the same. Confusions of this sort can make the jobs of authoritative
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