NASA Says It's Not Urging FCC Reject SpaceX Second-Gen Plans

NASA in its comments on SpaceX's pending second-generation constellation plans (see 2202090002) isn't trying to dissuade the FCC from approval but aims to protect its orbiting mission assets by showing the risks that come with big satellite concepts, NASA said in a commission filing Thursday. NASA said its recommendations for more analysis are to help the space community "identify and mitigate negative effects to the space environment, protect all parties’ assets, and enable commercial space activities." The agency said it will keep collaborating with SpaceX to allow data sharing and conjunction mitigation best practices. SpaceX didn't comment Friday.