05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... of these super-sized space internet projects have been authorised (to some degree) by the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) say the Italian team; SpaceX’s Starlink project. Satellites in this initial constellation are expected to be visible...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... a par with the 12,000 satellites SpaceX originally sought approval for from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and “implies an intention to compete in the end-user broadband service market,” writes Larry Press, a Professor of Information...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... decade and over four-fifths of smallsat launch mass. This is largely a consequence of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) partial approval of Starlink Gen 2 filings, alongside SpaceX's launch of 1G satellites on 2G orbital planes and the...
30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative. Musk has recently been granted a license by the FCC for the use of up to a million ground terminals for his proposed broadband mega-constellation. As part of the bankruptcy...
