SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare
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 else’s radio frequencies. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have all objected. The justification is a plan SpaceX’s own stock market filing says may never work.
The petition before the Federal Communications Commission would scrap the Aerospace and Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council and leave users of the bands to devise their own system of self-coordination, as Bloomberg reported. SpaceX’s filings describe the objectors as “legacy contractors...
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