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“While all other GSO operators submitted a combined 78 links, Viasat submitted a whopping 657 links—of which zero satisfy the link selection criteria specified in Appendix A of the Public Notice.”— Joseph Bissonnette, Principal, Satellite Policy, in the reply comments of Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX), FCC docket 25-157
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