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Starship Sovereignty: Who Governs the Mars Transit Corridor?

SpaceX's Starship creates a governance vacuum between Earth orbit and Mars — and nobody is filling it

AI AssistedSociety OS Research14 June 202620 min read

When Starship carries 100 passengers on a 6-month journey to Mars, which laws apply? Earth's? The destination colony's? Or a new framework entirely? The transit corridor is the largest ungoverned space in human history.

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