Global claim-staking and latecomer cost in the orbit spectrum resource

This article first examines some research on and analysis of the origins and magnitude of latecomer cost handicap, and then turns to the claimstaking or land-rush hypothesis. Here a central question is why there should be latecomers in the first place, and further, what the cost consequences seem to be. The article concludes with a brief look at global claim-staking, some illustrative equations on the subject, and finally, at degrees of stability in satellite deployment over time.