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Amazon Leo argued that the Teledesic framework had never been applied to a milestone extension request in the 27 years since it was decided.
SpaceX invoked the FCC’s Teledesic framework in its opposition to Amazon Leo’s extension request.
Teledesic, founded in the 1990s by Bill Gates and Craig McCaw, aimed to build a $9 billion broadband satellite internet constellation with 288 planned low-Earth-orbiting satellites before the project was abandoned in 2003 after launching just one satellite.
Teledesic, an Internet-focused option, never flew due to technological and market reasons.
Teledesic was canceled during the dot-com bust after its proposed $10,000,000,000 satellite system was judged unlikely to deliver on its business plan.