EPFD Compliance Comes Before Any Kuiper Waiver, SES/O3b Says

Any FCC waiver letting Amazon's Kuiper start operations before a needed ITU finding (see 2303300001) should be predicated on the company sharing equivalent power flux density (EPFD) output files produced by the ITUs compliance software, SES/O3b told the Space Bureau Monday. Kuiper committed to making available input data for ITU evaluation of EPFD compliance, but both input and output files are needed to confirm EPFD compliance, they said. Amazon is trying "to cherry pick conditions for itself" by arguing it should be subject to only some of the conditions the FCC placed on SpaceX's second-generation Starlink constellation, SpaceX said .