Intelsat expects to launch its Galaxy 37 C-band replacement satellite in July, it told the FCC International Bureau in an application Tuesday. Galaxy 37 is to replace Galaxy 13 and is the last of the C-band satellites Intelsat is launching as part of the C-band clearing, it said.

All active C-band antennas in partial economic areas known to be pointed at Telesat satellites have been transitioned as part of the C-band clearing, Telesat said Tuesday in docket 18-122, but it's continuing transition of the unassociated antennas/feeds that the relocation coordinator assigned it.

All the conditions imposed on the second-generation Starlink constellation should similarly be imposed on Amazon's Kuiper, SpaceX told the FCC International Bureau Monday. Kuiper seeks modification of its 2020 authorization so it's subject to the same condition on coordination and showing noninterference as SpaceX's second-gen satellites (see 2303270054). However, SpaceX said, "If Amazon feels that it is similarly situated and wants consistency of conditions with SpaceX, it cannot also be allowed to pick to accept some conditions while rejecting others."

Spire Global received notice from the New York Stock Exchange that it's not in compliance with the exchange's rule on minimum average closing price of its Class A common stock required over a consecutive 30 trading-day period, the satellite data company said Friday. Spire said the notice doesn't result in its immediate delisting from the NYSE. It said it intends to notify NYSE about its plan to regain compliance, and is looking at options including a reverse stock split. Spire stock closed Monday at 68 cents.

Citing delays stemming from launch company SpaceX, Viasat asked the FCC to move its launch and operation milestone date of April 30 for its ViaSat-3 satellite serving the U.S. to the end of May. In an International Bureau application filed Friday, Viasat said the launch had been planned for the last week of March, but it was delayed by SpaceX plans to launch it in early to mid-April. The delay is due to SpaceX putting some high-priority launches for the U.S. government before it, said Viasat, noting SpaceX also delayed the ViaSat-3 launch to obtain necessary flight hardware. Viasat said the satellite should now be in its proper orbital location in early May. SpaceX didn't comment Monday.

Sunday's launch of 36 satellites by NewSpace India from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, gives OneWeb more than enough satellites in orbit to have global coverage, the company said. The launch was OneWeb's 18th and gives it a constellation of 618. It said by year's end it will be ready to roll out global coverage, including increased connectivity in areas north of 50 degrees latitude, plus new areas online.

Noting the need to protect non-geostationary orbit operators from interference from later-round NGSO systems, O3b urged the FCC International Bureau to not alter Amazon's 2020 authorization and to clarify SpaceX's second-generation constellation authorization. Amazon Kuiper's requested modification, filed in February, asks that it be subject to the same condition as SpaceX's second-gen constellation and be allowed to start deployment before completing coordination and receiving approval from the FCC of its noninterference showing. O3b told the bureau Monday it must mandate that SpaceX or anyone else who might seek similar conditions as SpaceX's second-gen system make publicly available any assessment of its operations' potential to interfere with earlier-round systems. The FCC "cannot leave it up to the interfering party’s discretion whether to subject its analysis to robust and thorough review by potentially affected NGSO operators," it said.

Blue Origin's failed New Shepherd rocket launch on Sept. 12 was due to a failure of an engine nozzle, which then triggered the crew capsule escape system, the company said Friday. The mission was unmanned. It said the crew capsule and payloads on board landed safely and will be flown again. It said all systems designed for public safety "functioned as planned," and it's making changes to engine design and expects to resume flights soon.

Rather than launching separate V-band satellites, SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to put 7,500 V-band payloads on its second-generation satellite constellation. In an International Bureau application Wednesday seeking a modification of its V-band license, SpaceX said the modification would let it forego launching 11,943 satellites authorized in its V-band license.

Satellite industry representatives pushed for changes to the FCC International Bureau's guidance on earth station methodologies, in a meeting with FCC officials, per a docket 17-172 filing Thursday. The satellite reps urged eliminating limits on earth station collocation that conflict with commission rules and reverting to the original definition of highways and arterial roads as those defined and classified by the Department of Transportation. They said applicants should be able to decide on earth station antenna gain pattern used to show compliance, and the agency should allow earth station applicants to rely on equivalent isotopically radiated power data reflecting clear sky conditions. Representatives of OneWeb, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Telesat and the Satellite Industry Association met with International and Wireless Bureau staff.