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Viasat asserted in FCC filings that the Starlink satellite failure rate is far higher than SpaceX projected, citing in part the deliberate deorbiting of the original 60 v0.9 Starlink satellites launched in May 2019.
SpaceX filed with the Federal Communications Commission on 2020-10-15 that the company had successfully launched and operated nearly 300 additional satellites without a failure since an earlier report.
The FCC order for the C-band clearing process provided SES with $3,970,000,000 in accelerated relocation payments.
Intelsat believes that if the FCC had used Intelsat’s data it would have been eligible for up to $6,500,000,000 of the $9,700,000,000 in clearing payments instead of the $4,870,000,000 awarded in the FCC order.
The FCC order for the C-band clearing process provided Intelsat with $4,870,000,000 in accelerated relocation payments if Intelsat clears its spectrum by December 2023.
In a 2020-09-01 FCC license application, Virgin Galactic planned a crewed, powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo on 2020-10-22 following WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft test flights scheduled for 2020-10-01 and 2020-10-07.
Hughes Network Systems’ $50,000,000 investment in OneWeb gives the company the potential to offer low Earth orbit broadband in the FCC reverse auction.
Geostationary satellites orbit about 36,0 m above the equator and typically experience roughly a one-half-second signal lag, which exceeds the FCC’s low-latency threshold of 100 milliseconds or less.
Viasat has explored launching a constellation of 288 low Earth orbit satellites to achieve lower latency and qualify for additional FCC broadband subsidies.
Hughes Network Systems and Viasat have provided consumer internet services via geostationary satellites and have built and launched satellites with download performance that meets the FCC’s definition of broadband.
The FCC is offering satellite operators billions of dollars in subsidies to clear C-band spectrum for cellular 0.005 kg networks.
The FCC plan includes incentive payments for satellite operators who clear 100 megahertz of C-band spectrum by 2021-12-05 and the remaining 200 megahertz by 2023-12-05.
The Federal Communications Commission awarded Microsoft an experimental license in early September 2020 to download data from Urthecast’s Deimos-2 Earth observation satellite.
The Federal Communications Commission requires winning bidders from its December C-band auction to cover the cost of replacement satellites for operators vacating the spectrum.
Lower latency from inter-satellite links could improve SpaceX’s prospects for receiving a share of the FCC’s $20,400,000,000 Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
On 2020-06-23, SpaceX notified the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that nine Starlink satellites had suffered diminished maneuvering capability above injection and that another five had been deorbited either to test the de-orbit process or because the satellites were not performing optimally.
SES affirmed to the FCC on 2020-08-14 that it needs six satellites it ordered this summer at an average manufacturing cost of $144,800,000 per satellite, totaling $869,000,000.
Eutelsat anticipates having $14,900,000 in clearing costs to move its customers into the 200 megahertz of C-band still allocated for satellite use after the FCC’s December spectrum auction.
Intelsat ordered Galaxy-30 before the Federal Communications Commission had decided to auction 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum and require satellite operators to vacate the spectrum.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has $20,400,000,000 allocated for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund subsidies.