Amazon Seeks ITU EPFD Temporary Waiver, Citing SpaceX
Since the FCC gave SpaceX a partial waiver letting it start operations before receiving a necessary ITU finding, Amazon's planned Kuiper constellation should receive the same treatment, Amazon told the International Bureau Wednesday. In an application for an amendment of…
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its pending modification, Amazon said "uncertainty and delay" in the ITU process could threaten Kuiper deployment, so the commission should allow Kuiper to begin before receiving the usually needed equivalent power flux density findings from the ITU. It said it would take "all reasonable steps to eliminate any harmful interference" to geostationary orbit systems in frequency bands subject to ITU EPFD limits.