station-keeping procedures, access to and removal from orbital position, and the plans of States and other juridical persons to engage in orbital activities. If manufacturing were to take place in the space environment, it would be desirable for such an institution to be able to exercise some control over both lower orbits, transfers from a lower orbit to a higher orbit, and the management of traffic patterns employed by such space objects. Such data would also be maintained concerning the employment of radio frequencies by such space objects, with some emphasis being given to the possibility that a single space object could effectively utilize a number of frequencies without causing harmful interference. Not only the problem of acquiring such data but also the conditions surrounding its dissemination should be studied. Would, for example, the same practices be followed that are now present in the data acquired by Landsat? In considering the future of the UN, the ITU, and a possible new space entity it will be necessary to continue to observe the plans and activities of the UN and the ITU in particular. Thus, the UN is presently committee to a Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Nations and another on Science and Technology for Development. As has been noted, there is also a discussion going on at COPUOS on whether there should be a Conference on Space Law or Applications. The last mentioned may be convened as early as 1983. While the first two may have only a general interest to the gathering and transmission of solar energy from orbital level to Earth, the last conference will certainly be faced with the views of the eight equatorial States that they can exercise national sovereignty at geostationary orbital level above the equator. The presentation of such claims at any of these conferences will have an enormous
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