SpaceX, Dish Continue G-Block Clash

SpaceX and Dish Network continue lobbing broadsides at one another on SpaceX's plans for limited supplemental coverage from space (SCS) service in the G-block spectrum. In a docket 23-135 filing Tuesday, SpaceX labeled Dish criticisms "baseless fearmongering" and part of its "standard fare of misdirection and misinformation." Dish has petitioned the FCC to reconsider its Space Bureau decision allowing SpaceX to conduct limited SCS operations over the G block (see 2401040005). SpaceX said while Dish attacks its out-of-band emissions, SpaceX operations have been proven to readily fall below the noise floor of adjacent band users. Dish said SpaceX's response to the petition (see 2401180061) reinforced rather than countered concerns about harmful interference to Dish's adjacent H-block operations and to mobile satellite service uplinks worldwide. Pointing to SpaceX statements that testing will show its SCS service won't cause interference, Dish said the need for "a bespoke test" as proof "demonstrates all by itself that the risk of interference is likely too high."