Space Bureau 'Up and Running Soon,' Rosenworcel Tells SIA

The FCC Space Bureau reorganization "should be up and running soon," with OMB having signed off and the FCC working with Congress to get its approval, Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at the Satellite Industry Association's annual leadership dinner Monday, per prepared remarks posted Tuesday. The U.S. at 2023's World Radiocommunication Conference will take actions "that broadcast to the world how important we believe [the space sector] is to our future," she said. Rosenworcel said the single network future NPRM on this week's agenda and its proposed framework for allowing transmissions between satellites and consumer handsets using only spectrum available on terrestrial networks "can kick start more innovation in the space economy while also expanding wireless coverage in remote, unserved, and underserved areas." While making mobile dead zones "a thing of the past ... we have an opportunity to bring our spectrum policies into the future and think about how we move past the binary choices between mobile spectrum on the one hand or satellite spectrum on the other," she said.