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SpaceX to FCC: Don't Let Your Rules Interfere With Foreign SCS Testing

With 90 Starlinks in orbit that have direct-to-device capability, SpaceX is talking with the FCC about ensuring that testing in international markets doesn't run afoul of agency rules. The commission can facilitate testing by ensuring experimental authority defers to local…

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authorities in those international markets, SpaceX said in a docket 23-135 filing posted Wednesday recapping meetings with FCC Space Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology staff. It said applying the FCC's "one-size-fits-all out-of-band emissions limit" to supplemental coverage from space testing in international markets would undermine foreign regulators' development of their SCS frameworks and rules.