EchoStar and SpaceX Both Say Record Backs Them in SCS PFD Limit Fight
Both EchoStar and SpaceX are pointing to the record on SpaceX's reconsideration petition concerning the out-of-band power flux density limit in March's supplemental coverage from space order as backing their opposing positions. There is ample opposition to the recon petition…
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in the record, EchoStar said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-65. SpaceX's lone supporter, T-Mobile, is partnering with it on SCS service and the carrier misunderstands how notice-and-comment rulemaking works, EchoStar said. The FCC wasn't obliged to put on notice in the SCS NPRM that it might adopt an aggregate out-of-band emissions limit, it added. SpaceX said the technical evidence in the record shows the need to reconsider the aggregate power limits. Band-specific limits "would respect fundamental physics," and there's no technical evidence supporting the arguments of backers of the aggregate limit, it said.