Space Industry Needs More Competition: FCC's Rosenworcel
The new Space Age, driven increasingly by commercial actors rather than superpowers, needs more competition and competitors, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said Tuesday. "Our economy doesn’t benefit from monopolies," Rosenworcel told the audience at the SIA's DOD commercial satcom workshop…
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in Crystal City, Virginia. Since space is "a challenging industry to enter," more effort is needed to ease the path for additional investors, innovators and competitors, she said. After her address, Rosenworcel declined to elaborate on her competition comments, but in the past she has said SpaceX poses a monopolistic threat (see 2409110014). Rosenworcel's address was largely a victory lap as she recapped space-related actions the FCC has undertaken during her administration. She said the agency "made real progress" on space-related priorities she laid out early in her term: revising rules, promoting innovation and protecting space sustainability. She said the Space Bureau creation signaled to other nations that they need to collaborate with the U.S. on space. Staffing the bureau and adding engineers and policy experts allowed the agency to be quicker and more nimble as a regulator, said Rosenworcel, noting it processed 74% more applications in 2023 than 2022.