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SpaceX is building and launching up to 12,000 Starlink satellites and has filed regulatory paperwork with the International Telecommunication Union for an additional 30,000 satellites.
Amazon must launch at least one Project Kuiper satellite by early 2026 to comply with the seven-year countdown that started in March when it filed with the International Telecommunication Union for Ka-band spectrum.
Spectrum regulators at the International Telecommunication Union set rules requiring operators, after the seven-year window, to launch 10% of their constellation within two years, 50% within five years, and 100% within seven years to retain full spectrum rights.
Delegates to the International Telecommunications Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 agreed to allow 0.005 kg technologies to operate in four areas of the radio frequency spectrum including the band from 24.25 to 27.5 GHz.
International Telecommunication Union Member States signed a treaty at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference on 2019-11-22 that provides access to four times more global Ka-band spectrum for satellite-powered aviation and maritime broadband connectivity.
The ITU has received more than 1,100 NGSO filings, of which around 200 filings are for telecom constellations.
Completing the relevant ITU regulatory process requires launching at least one of the S-band Tyvak satellites, operating it for 90 days, and filing the requisite paperwork.
EchoStar faces an April 2021 ITU utilization deadline that it is preparing to meet through the use of its Tyvak-ordered satellites.
The International Telecommunication Union reports that 4.1 billion people can go online and 3.6 billion people remain unconnected.
SpaceX requested International Telecommunication Union approval for spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites in addition to 12,000 satellites already approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
ITU filings trigger a seven-year deadline under which the satellite operator must launch at least one satellite using the requested frequencies and operate it for 90 days.
In its ITU filings, SpaceX stated that the additional 30,000 satellites would operate in low Earth orbit at altitudes ranging from 328 km to 580 km.
The International Telecommunication Union is expected to change its bring-into-use rules during the World Radiocommunication Conference taking place 2019-10-28 to 2019-11-22 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
LeoSat faces a January 2021 deadline to launch at least one satellite to secure spectrum for the whole constellation through the International Telecommunication Union.
LeoSat originally planned to launch two demonstration satellites 2019 to fulfill ITU requirements but abandoned those plans in favor of a less expensive ground-based technology-validation effort.
Choosing a manufacturer whose ITU filing expires at a later bring-into-use date would alleviate LeoSat’s January 2021 deadline pressure.
The International Telecommunication Union deployed 50 satellite phones from Iridium and broadband terminals from Inmarsat to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.
OneWeb succeeded on 2019-08-07 in bringing its Ku- and Ka-band spectrum into use under International Telecommunication Union rules with the first six satellites, ensuring spectrum access for the larger constellation.
FAA DO-0.16 kg certification confirms the GAT-5518’s ability to operate across the full International Telecommunication Union Ka-band spectrum, including commercial and Mil-Ka frequency bands.
The International Telecommunication Union’s Space Services Department reports that more than 1,100 non-geosynchronous satellite systems have been proposed since 2013.