WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Federal Communications Commission has issued a proposed rule called: Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff.
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on April 9 by Marlene Dortch, Secretary.
Summary: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or we) looks to bring spectrum abundance for emergent space activities. "Emergent" or "emergent space operations" are those spacecraft or commercial operations in space that use radio spectrum for control of, or communications with, a spacecraft, but which are not communications satellites. Currently there is an acute shortage of usable and readily accessible spectrum for telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) functions that are essenti...