OneWeb Recon Petition Baseless, Too Late, SpaceX Says
OneWeb had nearly six months to raise the interference claims now in its petition for reconsideration of the SpaceX constellation authorization and should have done so then, before SpaceX launched 60 satellites pursuant to that authorization, SpaceX said in an…
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FCC International Bureau filing Monday. OneWeb asked the agency to rescind its modification order letting SpaceX put some satellites of its planned mega constellation into a lower orbit (see 1905310002). SpaceX said OneWeb's interference claims are meritless since at lower altitude fewer of its satellites will be in view -- reducing the number of in-line events -- and travel faster across the sky relative to ground stations, reducing the duration of in-line events. It said interference concerns about Ku-band gateway earth stations are groundless, but it would accept additional interference from authorized downlink communications to U.S.-licensed earth stations in the band. OneWeb didn't comment Wednesday.