OneWeb CEO Meets Commissioners to Air SpaceX Plan Modification Worries
OneWeb CEO Adrian Steckel had a series of eighth-floor meetings last week to discuss the company's concerns with SpaceX's ask to modify its license to allow nearly 1,500 satellites to relocate from 1,150 km to 550 km (see 1811090002). In…
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an International Bureau ex parte posting Friday, OneWeb said that before the FCC processes the application, it should make SpaceX demonstrate it won't cause more interference to OneWeb or others. It said SpaceX's simulation methodology so far has been "problematic and unrealistic" when it comes to interference. It said that the modification application is causing "serious procedural disruption" to the agency's Ka- and Ku-band processing round and that SpaceX's proposed use of the Ku band for feeder links as well as service links is creating considerable RF interference worries. OneWeb also repeated a request that its own modification application pending at the FCC be acted on at the same time as SpaceX's (see 1904030012). Steckel met with Commissioners Mike O'Rielly and Jessica Rosenworcel and aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks. SpaceX didn't comment Monday.