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Viasat operates geostationary satellites and plans to build a constellation of nearly 300 low Earth orbit satellites if it qualifies for Federal Communications Commission subsidies to provide rural broadband.
Karina Drees, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, supports the FCC taking up the proposed S-band allocation and endorsed the consortium’s principles in a 2021-02-04 letter to the FCC as a way of avoiding bottlenecks in launch regulations.
Commercial launch operators currently use the 2,200–2,290 MHz band under individual special temporary authority authorizations from the FCC for each launch.
In December 2020, Viasat petitioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to conduct an environmental review of Starlink before granting SpaceX permission to operate nearly 3,000 more satellites in lower orbits.
The commercial launch spectrum allocation is the only space-related topic on the FCC’s 2021-04-21 commission meeting agenda released 2021-03-31.
The Federal Communications Commission will include on the agenda of its 2021-04-21 open meeting a proposed rule to grant a secondary allocation of S-band spectrum, currently reserved for government uses, for telemetry for commercial launches.
Astra filed a special temporary authority application with the FCC on 2021-03-30 seeking use of the S-band for launch telemetry for its next orbital launch attempt scheduled for no earlier than 2021-08-01.
Intelsat withdrew from the C-Band Alliance after the FCC announced a public auction-based approach to C-band clearing rather than a private process run by alliance members.
The Federal Communications Commission established a $9,700,000,000 incentive program to allocate C-band clearing funding to operators on an individual basis.
SES could earn a maximum of $3,970,000,000 in C-band clearing proceeds under the FCC framework.
SpaceX has over 10,000 beta users for Starlink, according to filings with the FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission granted Umbra an experimental license in February to operate high-bandwidth SAR using the 1,200 MHz band centered on 9.8 GHz and low-bandwidth SAR using the 600 MHz band centered on 9.6 GHz.
SES is claiming $1,800,000,000 from Intelsat for alleged unfair practices during the C-Band Alliance process and the division of the FCC’s incentive payments.
The Federal Communications Commission granted Umbra an experimental license in February to operate high-bandwidth SAR using the 1,200 MHz band centered on 9.8 GHz and low-bandwidth SAR using the 600 MHz band centered on 9.6 GHz.
Umbra has been granted a license from the Federal Communications Commission to operate a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite with 1,200 MHz of bandwidth.
Umbra was granted a license by the Federal Communications Commission to operate its synthetic aperture radar satellite with 1,200 MHz of bandwidth.
SpaceX requested FCC permission to operate about 3,000 Starlink satellites at altitudes between 540 and 570 km.
The FCC requires SpaceX to deploy at least half of its planned Starlink fleet, about 1,600 satellites, by July 2026.
SpaceX’s 2021-01-22 letter to the FCC from David Goldman, Director of Satellite Policy at SpaceX, included details of three telephone conversations between SpaceX officials and FCC staff.
SpaceX asserted in its FCC filing that Starlink currently provides 100 Mb/s downlink performance and aims to grow to 10 Gb/s downlink in the future.