One of the major conflicts the KESTS to GEO structure would have with the existing thrust of aerospace, is that the KESTS is a relatively unmoving object infilling all the way from the ground to GEO. Early KESTS would likely have their earth terminal on the equator. Thus there is a hazard to both KESTS and to spacecraft and satellites operating below GEO, including those in LEO such as the Space Station and the GPS sats, and the ORBCOM satellite group. Collison is likely to destroy one or both, and collisions are likely in the equatorial plane where early KESTS would be located. Aeorpsce is not likely to give up all that space, their bread and butter territory.

With GEO so easily accessable, many of those functions could be taken up by satellites in GEO. Probably any determined effort to build KESTS to GEO would need to involve compensation to all the operators of satellites now operating below GEO, moving them to GEO, and sending a fleet of scavenger spacecraft to clear out the space for KESTS to occupy. This would be very expensive and likely involve much irritation among corporations. But the benefit to all is absolutely enormous: GEO itself as a waystation for all those functions, and high spaceport facilities from which to reach outward.

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