The FCC votes Thursday, April 30, to replace 1990s EPFD limits with a performance-based coordination framework. SpaceX got its waiver January 9; Amazon Kuiper followed in February. By the time the Commission codifies the new rules, the two largest LEO operators will have been running under them for three to four months. The vote is not the starting gun. It is the regularization of a head start.
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The FCC votes Thursday, April 30, to replace 1990s EPFD limits with a performance-based coordination framework. SpaceX got its waiver January 9; Amazon Kuiper followed in February. By the time the Commission codifies the new rules, the two largest LEO operators will have been running under them for three to four months. The vote is not the starting gun. It is the regularization of a head start.

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