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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #20 on: 09/29/2022 03:24 pm »
Wow did not expect this coming from a democrat controlled congress, very interesting:
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SCIENCE COMMITTEE LEADERS SEND LETTER TO FCC ON ORBITAL DEBRIS MITIGATION STANDARDS
The letter also said "As the bipartisan leadership of the Science Committee and our Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee wrote to your predecessor in April 2020,2 the Commission does not have clear authority from Congress, a fact which remains true today.", could be very useful in beating back space NIMBYs' attempt to kill constellations via FCC.
If you prefer to think in terms of political cliches, you need to pick a different set for this specific issue. "Democrat" and "NIMBY" do not fit the situation. The incumbent constellations operators asked the FCC to do this, so the proper political cliche would be  "the oligopoly is acting to suppress smaller newcomers".

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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #21 on: 09/30/2022 01:42 am »
could be very useful in beating back space NIMBYs' attempt to kill constellations via FCC.
The constellation operators (specifically Iridium, Oneweb, and SpaceX, via the AIAA) are the ones proposing the more stringent deorbit rules, not opposing them.

If you prefer to think in terms of political cliches, you need to pick a different set for this specific issue. "Democrat" and "NIMBY" do not fit the situation. The incumbent constellations operators asked the FCC to do this, so the proper political cliche would be  "the oligopoly is acting to suppress smaller newcomers".

Sorry, that particular comment is not referring to this 5 year rule, I understand this rule actually has industry's support, more or less. My comment was more about attempts by 3rd parties (Natural Resources Defense Council is the most recent example) to kill constellation via FCC, by using excuses such as space debris, satellite brightness, etc which FCC doesn't have authority over. Technically it's off topic here, should probably be moved to Starlink FCC thread.

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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #22 on: 09/30/2022 01:43 am »
FCC approves new orbital debris rule

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The Federal Communications Commission adopted a new rule Sept. 29 that will shorten the time for satellite operators to deorbit low Earth orbit satellites from 25 to 5 years.

Commissioners voted 4-0 to adopt the draft rule, published earlier this month, intended to address growing debris in LEO. Under the new rule, spacecraft that end their lives in orbits at altitudes of 2,000 kilometers or below will have to deorbit as soon as practicable and no more than five years after the end of their mission. The rule would apply to satellites launched two years after the order is adopted, and include both U.S.-licensed satellites as well as those licensed by other jurisdictions but seeking U.S. market access.

The rule replaces a longstanding guideline that called for deorbiting satellites up to 25 years after the end of their mission. “Twenty-five years is a long time. There is no reason to wait that long anymore, especially in low Earth orbit,” Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC chairwoman, said at the meeting.

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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #23 on: 10/01/2022 11:48 am »
Office of Space Commerce: FCC “aggressively” pushing limits of authority with orbital debris rule

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In a talk at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference here Sept. 30, Richard DalBello said the FCC’s approval of new regulations the day before, intended to limit the creation of orbital debris by requiring satellites in LEO to be deorbited no more than five years after the end of their life, illustrates the gaps in domestic space regulation.

“I think the FCC, for their part, has pushed the boundaries of their authorities pretty aggressively,” he said when asked about what agency should have oversight for issues like that, as his office works to create a civil space traffic management capability.

“Although I certainly congratulate them on the depth of their intellectual work,” he said of the FCC and its new order, “a lot of the things that they articulated are probably, arguably, outside their job jar.”

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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #24 on: 10/06/2022 03:15 am »
https://twitter.com/Genevaexpat/status/1577398390991818761

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SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson today praised the FCC's decision to drop the deadline for LEO-sat disposal from 25 to 5 yrs. "That's a remarkable achievement in itself," he told me,
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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #25 on: 10/10/2022 04:54 am »
The FCC's Rules on Space Junk Just Got Stricter

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The FCC’s rule applies mainly to US companies, or at least to anyone who wants to launch a satellite that needs a license from the agency to use a slice of the electromagnetic spectrum for communication. The rule doesn’t have the force of law, and it doesn’t yet have backing from NASA or Congress. But McKnight sees it as an important shift that other policymakers may follow. “I actually think it should be a one-year rule. The five-year rule is just an intermediate point,” says McKnight, senior technical fellow at LeoLabs, a space-debris-tracking company based in Menlo Park, California. “I’m very happy to see the FCC taking leadership, saying we really need to be responsible, and we need to look at sustained, safe space operations.”

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Re: FCC to set five-year deadline for deorbiting LEO satellites
« Reply #26 on: 10/14/2022 10:11 pm »
Can someone tell me where Congress delegated such rule making authority to the FCC?  If there is none, it is likely subject to a court challenge should someone care to do so.

Start by looking up the 1983 Chevron Case.

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