SpaceX Raises Concerns About NGSO Application Amendments
Attempts at amending non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite applications pending before the FCC could result in delay and uncertainty in the licensing process and "threaten the integrity" of the processing round regime, SpaceX said (here and here) in meetings with International…
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Bureau staffers and an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai. It said the agency has clear rules against manipulating processing rounds. SpaceX didn't name any particular amendments but said the agency in the past acted against potential spectrum warehousing or speculation by prohibiting a party having an attributable interest in more than one NGSO system in a band and ensuring pending applications for which wholesale changes are proposed are relegated to a later processing round. Boeing has argued its attempt to transfer its NGSO application to OneWeb Chairman Greg Wyler doesn't violate those NGSO attributable interest rules (see 1801020007).