The Paperwork War: How ITU Filing Became LEO's First Battlefield
Before satellites launch, operators fight for spectrum priority through ITU filings—a bureaucratic race where timing determines interference rights for decades.
Regulation
The Deorbit Bill Comes Due: What Happens When LEO's Fleet Turns to Smoke
Satellite operators face a rising tide of deorbits, atmospheric pollution concerns, and disposal costs that could reshape constellation economics.
The Launch Manifest Bottleneck: When Rocket Access Becomes the Scarcest Resource
SpaceX’s rideshare freeze has turned launch capacity into a regulatory chokepoint, forcing operators to redesign satellites and regulators to rethink spectrum policy.
The Milestone Waiver: When FCC Deadlines Bend and What It Costs
Amazon missed its FCC deployment deadline by nearly 1,000 satellites—then kept its license anyway, but lost something more valuable.
The Spectrum Rule That Was Quietly Strangling LEO Broadband
The FCC’s April 2026 overhaul of satellite spectrum-sharing rules scrapped a 1990s framework that was systematically suppressing the capacity of every LEO constellation flying today.
Fifty Kilometers Too High: How Orbital Altitude Is Becoming a Competitive Weapon
SpaceX and Amazon are fighting at the FCC over orbital insertion altitudes—a dispute that looks like a safety argument but is equally about spectrum priority and competitive positioning.
The Coming Fight Over Low Earth Orbit
As constellations multiply, the binding constraints on satellite internet are shifting from rockets and radios to orbital slots, spectrum rights, and collision risk.