SpaceX Warehousing Accusations Bunk: Viasat
SpaceX accusations of gateway earth station warehousing by Viasat (see 2107210011) ignore that its numerous earth station applications are consistent with its planned 2022 launch of ViaSat-3 and that it said years ago ViaSat-3 would require hundreds of such earth…
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stations, Viasat said Friday in docket 18-314. The FCC cited the likely need for thousands of such sites for fixed satellite service networks in its 2016 upper microwave flexible use band order, Viasat said, noting SpaceX acknowledged in the proceeding that Viasat indicated four years ago that applications for hundreds of gateways for the geostationary orbit system would be coming. SpaceX didn't comment.