SpaceX Seeks to Speed Broadband Service Rollout to Polar Territory

SpaceX seeks FCC International Bureau OK for its first-generation broadband constellation to communicate with its user terminals specifically in the U.S. polar regions. In an IB application Monday, it said its request is for communications with user terminals solely at latitudes north of 53 degrees. It said such special temporary authority would let it accelerate deployment of its service to the polar regions before the Starlink constellation is sufficiently deployed to provide polar service at its already-authorized 25-degree minimum elevation angle. It said those operations at elevation angles of less than 25 degrees would be done on a non-interference basis.