OneWeb and SpaceX reached a coordination agreement allowing their first-generation non-geostationary orbit fixed satellite service systems to coexist and their proposed second-gen systems to also coexist while protecting the first-gen systems, they told the FCC International Bureau Tuesday. That coordination should supersede any default rules and make moot any further conditions on their system authorizations, they said. Citing the coordination agreement, the two urged the agency to "quickly approve" their pending second-gen applications.

Hughes successfully demonstrated 5G satellite backhaul capabilities with its Jupiter System ground platform, it said Tuesday. It said it tested connecting 5G smartphones to the internet using its Jupiter System infrastructure, including a very small aperture gateway and high throughput satellite.

SpaceX's proposed Boca Chica Launch Site in Texas for its Starship rocket will need to take dozens of mitigation actions for its potential environmental impacts, said an FAA environmental assessment Monday. SpaceX's license application is pending. The agency said those mitigation steps include more advanced notice of launches to reduce local road closings, ongoing wildlife and vegetation monitoring, and coordination with state or federal agencies about removal of launch debris from environmentally sensitive habitats.

SpaceX's response to claims it's urging people to use Starlink terminals as ersatz earth stations in motion, without FCC OK (see 2206090054), is weak sauce as the company continues to urge such activity, or at the least not discourage it, Dish Network said in docket 20-443 Monday. SpaceX actually deactivating ESIM operations "will go a long way" toward addressing concerns, Dish said. SpaceX didn't comment.

Viasat's planned $7.3 billion purchase of Inmarsat (see 2111080038) got challenges from SpaceX and Amazon's Kuiper, in docket 22-153 filings Monday. Citing what it said was Viasat's "ongoing willful and unlawful operation" of earth stations in the Ka band without FCC approval, SpaceX urged the FCC to deny approving the transaction. The FCC "can no longer allow this issue to linger unresolved as Viasat continues to apply for more licenses and even entire satellite systems while blatantly flouting conditions the Commission placed on Viasat’s existing licenses," it said. SpaceX filed a complaint with the FCC Enforcement Bureau a year ago about the earth stations being used to provide mass market residential and in-flight Wi-Fi services without first getting coordination agreements from non-geostationary fixed satellite service operators that have priority protection. The deal violates agency rules against holding multiple dormant satellite authorizations in the same frequency band, given Viasat's authorization for its as-yet unbuilt V-band system and a modification application for that system pending, while Inmarsat has a pending application to operate V-band satellites, Kuiper said. It said any approval should be conditioned on one of the applicants surrendering or withdrawing a V-band license or application. Viasat didn't comment.

Marine vessel operations continue to suffer from bad satellite broadband due to attrition, bankruptcies and consolidation, Royal Caribbean told the FCC International Bureau Friday, urging it to approve SpaceX's pending application for a blanket license for second-generation earth stations in motion. It said SpaceX offers "a true next generation solution for our vessels that meets the rigorous technical and operational requirements commensurate with our growth plans."

Dish Network and SpaceX clashed over Starlink subscribers using their earth stations in motion. Dish told the FCC International Bureau this week SpaceX hasn't retracted statements encouraging ESIM transmissions, and a growing number of Starllink users are using their terminals in motion. Such use is outside the company's FCC authorization, it said. It said tweets by CEO Elon Musk about the limited mobile capabilities now and fully mobile earth stations coming later this year are proclamations "from the mountaintops of social media, as if the regulated entity wanted to force the agency’s hand by creating a fait accompli on the ground." At least one of Musk's tweets was about Starlink service being provided in Ukraine, and "highlight[s] the lengths to which DISH will go so long as the Commission inexplicably leaves the 12 GHz proceeding open," SpaceX said Wednesday. It said Dish's "muddled and confusing" arguments seem to allege SpaceX is encouraging people to use Starlink terminals in motion, though Dish "is forced to admit -- no one from SpaceX encouraged anyone to use their terminal in such a fashion and that use is expressly prohibited in SpaceX’s Terms of Service."

SpaceX's Starlink seems to be planning to deploy satellites that the FCC didn't approve or evaluate when it authorized the company's first-generation configuration and aren't described or assessed for risk in its pending second-gen application, Viasat told the FCC International Bureau Tuesday. The second-gen Starlinks CEO Elon Musk described in a recent interview -- 7 meters long, weighing about 1.25 tons each -- are larger and heavier than the first-gen satellites and thus not covered by the orbital debris mitigation plan approved by the FCC, Viasat said. That means they're not authorized by SpaceX's current satellite system license, it said. SpaceX's pending second-gen application indicates those satellites should be deployable using a Falcon 9 rocket, but Musk is now saying the Falcon doesn't have the volume or mass required, noting the second-gen satellites differ from what's described in the application, it said. Larger second-gen satellites pose higher collision risks, it said. Viasat again said SpaceX's second-gen application should be denied or held in abeyance (see 2203090006) and said the agency should compel the company to clarify the physical characteristics of all Starlinks it intends to deploy and to submit revised orbital debris mitigation plans and analyses. SpaceX didn't comment Wednesday.

Aug. 10 is the deadline for operators of incumbent C-band earth station antennas listed as inactive by the C-band relocation coordinator to let the FCC International Bureau know those antennas are in continued operation and intend to participate in the C-band transition, per a notice for Thursday's Federal Register. No such bureau notification means the antenna authorizations will be terminated, it said.

SpaceX's updated equivalent power flux density data for its proposed second-generation satellite constellation (see 2202070001) shows it will exceed applicable EPFD limits even using ITU-approved methodology, Dish Network told the FCC International Bureau Monday. It said SpaceX subdividing its system to circumvent the noncompliance is like claiming one "has broken Usain Bolt’s world record for the 100-meter dash based on their time for the first 5.6 meters." Dish said the agency should deny the 12 GHz portion of the application and reopen its approval of SpaceX's first-generation system to see if the company "has taken similar liberties." SpaceX didn't comment Tuesday.