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“Since reading SpaceX’s ex parte letter, Astranis attempted to recreate the SpaceX results and could not.”— Kimberly M. Baum, Head of Regulatory, Astranis Space Technologies Corp., FCC docket 25-157
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All tidbits →Astranis tells the FCC it could not reproduce SpaceX's numbers on two of its GSO reference links
Astranis says it could not reproduce SpaceX's results on two of its Ka-band GSO reference links. In a September 30 letter in FCC docket 25-157, the company a…
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SpaceX asks the FCC to replace third-party launch-spectrum coordinating committees with an automated scheduling system
SpaceX's reply comments in FCC docket 13-115 take aim at AFTRCC. Only that "advocacy group" and its legacy members, SpaceX says, oppose "more efficient and s…
Read the tidbit →Relativity Space asks the FCC to consider co-primary spectrum status for commercial launch
In reply comments filed September 25 in FCC docket 13-115, Relativity Space says flight test and space launch telemetry are, in nearly every respect the Aero…
Read the tidbit →Cowboy Space, which plans to fly its satellites on its own rockets, asks the FCC to open a rulemaking on launch spectrum
Cowboy Space Corp. calls itself "a future launch operator and satellite constellation licensee," and its comment in FCC docket 13-115 explains why reliable a…
Read the tidbit →Muon Space tells the FCC that AT&T, CTIA, and SiriusXM have the spectrum-sharing law wrong
The FCC's "Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff" proceeding has drawn an ex parte letter from Muon Space, which says it is correcting "material mischarac…
Read the tidbit →EchoStar asks the FCC to reverse an order excluding its own claims from a $2.4 billion trust
EchoStar wants the Federal Communications Commission to undo a Bureau order that narrows who can collect from a $2.4 billion trust. EchoStar funded the trust…
Read the tidbit →SpaceX tells FCC that zero of Viasat's 657 proposed reference links pass the screening criteria
GSO operators "now seek to collapse that framework from within," SpaceX told the FCC in July 14 reply comments on the reference links that will implement the…
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