Posted on 03/10/2018 6:13:07 AM PST by Voption
Four tiny nanosats built by a California startup that were placed in orbit by India’s PSLV rocket in January now appear to have been launched without an FCC license....The FCC denied the license because the nanosats were so small there is a fear they could become a space junk hazard. The FCC has now vacated an approved license for launching four more Swarm satellites on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket in April because, “The FCC believes that Swarm launched and is operating its original small satellites, despite having been forbidden to do so.”
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Get the Indian FCC to license them.
What does Bob Dylan think?
How does the FCC have a leg to stand on here?
They aren’t aviation.
They aren’t national defense.
They aren’t extra-terrestrial.
License them out of India, Panama, etc, country of convenience. Screw FCC
Unless totally rained in a government agency well grab all the power they can
The FCC is responsible for regulating commercial satellites.The four SpaceBees would be the first practical demonstration of Swarm’s prototype hardware and cutting-edge algorithms, swapping data with ground stations for up to eight years.
That ship sailed, a long time ago.
“every breath you take, every move you make....”
See Wickard vs. Filburn (1942)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
“Production quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 were constitutionally applied to agricultural production that was consumed purely intrastate because its effect upon interstate commerce placed it within the power of Congress to regulate under the Commerce Clause.”
These satellites are transmitting signals in the electromagnetic spectrum in which the FCC is the designated authority to regulate for US satellites.
How does the FCC have the right to regulate who does what in space, for cripes’ sake!?? When did the government take ownership of the Universe?
Are they US satellites because the reception dishes are here?
Because thy are manufactured here?
Because they are launched here?
Because the company that runs them is located here?
Any or all of those situations can change and the FCC would be SOL.
XERB, baby.
The FCC has jurisdiction if they are transmitting data via radio signals to and from ground stations located in the U.S.
Again... That ship sailed a long time ago.
Our Federal government can regulate literally anything, including not growing wheat, and communication satellites...
The FCC regulates communications satellites, the FAA regulates all rocket launches in the US.
(SpaceX, for example, must obtain an FAA launch license, prior to any launch they conduct. If the Feds say “no,” there is no launch.)
Because somebody gave the FCC ownership of the air?
Right up until there is. What are they going to do, shoot the rocket down?
It's ridiculous that a private citizen can't launch a spacecraft (assuming he has anywhere near the capability of doing so) without asking Nanna for permission.
FCC only has jurisdiction over those ground stations that are physically in the US. Satellites from every nation pass over the US all the time transmitting signals to their ground stations and FCC has no say in the matter.
This is over-reach.
And Russia has a comparable regulatory agency. Since our satellites (including spy satellites) pass over Russian territory all the time, do you want to give the Russians the ability to regulate them, too?
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