SpaceX's Likelihood of 12 GHz Interference Make it Unfit for RDOF Participation: Dish

That SpaceX's constellation plans can be an interference threat to direct broadcast satellite operations in the 12 GHz band points to it being unlikely to fulfill its obligations under Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction rules, Dish Network said in docket 09-197 Wednesday. It included various technical assessments it said demonstrated how SpaceX would exceed equivalent power flux density limits. SpaceX plans to employ the 12 GHz band, Dish said, but "spectrum users violating the technical restrictions of the Commission’s rules for a frequency band are ineligible for purposes of certifying access." SpaceX didn't comment.