EchoStar Challenges SpaceX SCS Power Levels Waiver
The FCC Space and Wireless bureaus' grant of a waiver to SpaceX for its supplemental coverage from space (SCS) service unreasonably put the burden on EchoStar to protect itself from any interference, EchoStar said this week in an application for…
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review. The waiver, granted last month, covered the aggregate out-of-band power flux density limits that the FCC adopted in its 2024 SCS order and requires that SpaceX address any interference that happens (see 2503070030). EchoStar said the bureaus never showed that the FCC's concerns underlying its emissions limit rule had changed, gone away or become unlikely. It said the Communications Act gives the FCC the task of preventing interference, not addressing it after the fact. It asked that the full commission reverse the bureaus' waiver.