Consider OK'ing Part of SpaceX's Second-Gen Plans: Kuiper
The FCC could consider licensing a subset of SpaceX's proposed second-generation satellite constellation and deferring consideration on the rest until the agency can address the challenges it presents, Amazon's Kuiper told the International Bureau last week. It said that would be a compromise between SpaceX urgings for approval and the concerns that second-gen constellation could hurt competition and innovation among other emerging non-geostationary orbit fixed satellite service systems. Kuiper said approving the satellites tied to one of the 18 ITU filings that comprise the second-gen system would let the FCC defer consideration on whether SpaceX must demonstrate compliance with equivalent power flux density limits across the entire system and avoid orbital overlap, while still allowing near-term deployment. SpaceX didn't comment Monday.