Australia's Fleet Space Seeks US Access for IoT Constellation

Australia's Fleet Space Technologies wants FCC OK for U.S. market access to offer IoT service with 40 low earth orbit satellites operating on UHF frequencies. In an International Bureau petition Tuesday, Fleet said it has six small satellites in orbit now, plans to launch another mid-2022 and then start batches of deployments in late 2022 that will lead to its constellation being completed in 2028. It said it eventually plans to up the constellation size to 200 and would seek that authorization later.