sattelites

Since Space is international area there are no laws governing taking Sattelites and scrapping them for metal right? What would stop someone from launching a rocket off an island in the pacific and grabbing up sattelites and bringing them back to earth. Than scrapping the metal for money?

With the amount of space dust and larger impacting the earth daily, some damage must have happened.

My GPS garmin 350 lost connection with satellites

Im in an argument with someone who believes in geocentrism and i used geosynchronous satellites to disprove geocentrism but he is now asking for how we can know they move.