SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare
The petition before the Federal Communications Commission would scrap the council that schedules launch frequencies and leave users to coordinate among themselves, and Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have all told the regulator it would cause chaos
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SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have objected, while the European Commission is moving the other way and reserving two-thirds of its own satellite band for European operators.
SpaceX wants the American regulator to abolish the body that stops rocket launches interfering with everyone…
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