FCC
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Commercial
Washington Weighs a 'Light-Touch' Rulebook for Space Businesses No One Regulates Yet
A House subcommittee grilled the Office of Space Commerce on its plan for a single opt-in "Space Commerce Certification" to fast-track approval of orbital manufacturing, satellite servicing, and lunar ventures that fall outside FAA and FCC authority.
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Commercial
ULA Flies Its Last Atlas V 551 as Amazon Leo Races an FCC Deployment Deadline
United Launch Alliance closed out the Atlas V 551's 20-year career hauling 29 more Amazon Leo satellites to orbit, just weeks before Amazon's FCC deadline to deploy half its broadband constellation.
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Commercial
Rival Satellite Operators Launch Their Own NGSO Trade Group — Without SpaceX
Rival satellite operators just formed their own industry trade group — and they made a point of leaving SpaceX out. The exclusion reveals a structural fault line over spectrum policy and orbital rights.
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Commercial
SpaceX has launched more than 6,000 satellites. Astronomers are not happy about it.
Starlink is the largest satellite constellation in history — and the most disruptive to ground-based astronomy. SpaceX has made mitigation efforts, but the fundamental tension between dense LEO constellations and telescope surveys remains unresolved as competitors plan their own systems.
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Commercial
The satellites won. Now astronomers are learning to live with 40,000 of them.
Starlink, OneWeb, and their competitors have fundamentally changed the night sky. The question is no longer whether to stop the constellations — it's whether engineering fixes and international regulation can preserve professional astronomy before Vera Rubin comes online.
