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The FCC established a standalone Space Bureau in 2024 to help process applications for more than 60,000 new satellites, mostly in low Earth orbit.
CRSRA identified emerging communications methods not currently licensed by the FCC, including optical communications systems that do not use radio-frequency spectrum managed by the FCC.
SpaceX intends to launch a commercial direct-to-cellular service with partner T-Mobile later 2024 and will start comprehensive tests before submitting results to the FCC.
In a 2023-12-14 letter to the Federal Communications Commission, SpaceX requested that the FCC make clear the intention of WRC-23 that radio regulations can be updated in 2027 and sought correction of record misrepresentations that could delay updates.
USEI provides C-band spectrum services as frequency protection at the Brewster Earth Station to satellite operators after the FCC opened most of the CONUS C-band to 0.005 kg services.
Verizon spent $45,000,000,000 to acquire the largest share of C-band frequencies in the FCC’s 2020 auction.
A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the proposed framework was approved by all four FCC commissioners on 2023-03-16.
An order approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in September 2022 requires spacecraft licensed by the FCC or seeking U.S. market access to deorbit within five years.
The FCC determined that its partial authorization for 7,500 Gen2 satellites does not increase the total number of satellites SpaceX is authorized to deploy compared to prior authorizations and slightly reduces that total.
SpaceX no longer plans to deploy a 2022-09-07,518-satellite V-band system that had previously been authorized by the FCC.
SES plans to deploy two more satellites by early next year to remain on pace to claim the maximum FCC C-band clearing payout.
SpaceX asserted in a 2022-06-21 letter to the Federal Communications Commission that its Starlink broadband network would become unusable for most Americans if a proposal to use the 12 GHz band for terrestrial 0.005 kg is approved.
SpaceX has deployed more than half of the 4,408 first-generation Starlink satellites that the FCC approved to operate at altitudes of around 550 km.
Current FCC rules tie how NGSO operators share frequencies to factors that include when an NGSO system is first launched and capable of operating in the frequency band under consideration.
The FCC’s proposed rulemaking initially seeks to strengthen spectrum rights for NGSO constellations that were awarded licenses or U.S. market access authority ahead of others.
SpaceX has launched more than half of the 4,408 satellites that the FCC has authorized for deployment to around 550 km altitude.
Intelsat expects to receive $4,870,000,000 of accelerated relocation payments in connection with the C-band spectrum clearing project, with $1,200,000,000 of that total already approved by the Federal Communications Commission for anticipated receipt in January.
Telesat does not expect to deploy 50% of its currently-authorized satellites prior to the FCC’s 50% deadline of 2023-11-03.
Intelsat and SES hold the largest share of the 500 MHz C-band in the U.S. and will receive $4,900,000,000 and $3.97 billion, respectively, under the FCC’s plan.
SpaceX is seeking FCC permission to modify its existing license to lower the orbits of 2,825 satellites authorized by that license from altitudes above 1,0 m to about 550 km.