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FCC Approves a New C-Band Auction 

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Amazon Leo Files for 5,105 Satellites in Globalstar Spectrum for D2D

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Mission assurance and service assurance telemetry were built as separate systems, and for single-spacecraft GEO operations, that worked. But every new satellite in a constellation, every additional ground station, and […]

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