SpaceX, Dish, Globalstar Duel Over SCS Application Public Notice
SpaceX, Dish Network and Globalstar are at odds over whether SpaceX's pending supplemental coverage from space application is acceptable for filing. In an FCC Space Bureau filing Tuesday, SpaceX again urged that the application be put on public notice (see…
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2311170060) and said Dish and Globalstar arguments that the commission's 60-day processing deadline doesn't apply to SpaceX's application are incorrect. September's satellite streamlining order clearly set timelines for all pending and future applications, it said. SpaceX said it can't assess interference with Dish's 2 GHz mobile satellite service because Dish has no such service for SpaceX to assess for possible interference. It said Globalstar is not entitled to exclusive use of the 1.6/2.4 GHz band. Globalstar said last month that SpaceX hasn't shown it can operate its second-generation constellation in the band without interfering with Globalstar operations. Dish said that along with SpaceX not showing it won't interfere with other 2 GHz operations, nothing in the satellite streamlining order mandates that SpaceX's application be put on public notice. While the order recommended timelines for accepting applications for filing, it didn't mandate them, Dish said.