Who gets to decide where satellites can go?

It is covered by treaty between nations (and the threat of errant ones being shot down) with complicated rulings like this http://regulations.vlex.com/vid/treaty-geostationa...

Follow this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit#O... and notice the link to the International Telecommunications Union

This is a significant problem, and it's only going to get worse.

Nobody has jurisdiction in space, and furthermore, orbital insertion isn't perfectly accurate. You might end up a few kilometers away from your target orbit. Often, that's good enough, but it means that every satellite launch effectively takes up several kilometers of space, since it could end up anywhere in that region.

There's a lot of space, and satellites are small, but there are thousands of them up there, and many orbits come close to intersecting, especially over a period of many years. Recently, the first major collision occurred, and you can expect others in the future.

That is an excellent question! The best I've read all day. We would assume there IS a protocol for that.but I honestly don't know. Great question!on edit Thanx Mike!

I do not know , but that is crazy .They are already basically staking claim to space.I wouldnt doubt if the government starts charging to look into the sky.