A SpaceX plan to realize access to latest satellite spectrum areas could backfire.
Elon Musk’s Reportedly “erratic behavior” and alleged illegal drug use call into query whether SpaceX Starlink satellites can be allowed to proceed operating – let alone expand their reach, in response to scathing comments from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).
The group filed the request Wednesday in a Federal Communications Commission case SpaceX filed in February that sought to open a satellite spectrum band to latest users. On the contrary, UCCA argued, the FCC should examine whether SpaceX is even able to holding satellite licenses.
“At its core is the Commission’s responsibility to ensure that any company granted the privilege of operating in public broadcasting meets certain qualifications and serves the public interest,” Arthur Belendiuk, UCCA’s chief regulatory attorney, said in a press release .
A cause that’s most vital to you? The SpaceX founder and majority shareholder reported using ketamine, LSD, cocaine, mushrooms and ecstasy, detailed in a Wall Street Journal report. (Musk has denied the allegationsdespite the fact that he did accepted Use of prescription ketamine.)
(The agency’s rules require licensees to act in the general public interest and meet basic “character qualifications.” The filing says that within the Nineteen Seventies, the FCC rejected a license renewal application if the holder was “unable or unwilling.” was to stop doping up.”)
The group also cited news reports that Musk rejected a Ukrainian request to make use of the Starlink system to guard against Russian invasion and that the corporate doesn’t prevent the usage of the satellite terminals by the Russian military.
“Offering military assistance to Russia is just the tip of the iceberg in a pattern of repeated abuse of the Starlink system – conduct that requires immediate investigation by the FCC,” Belendiuk added within the statement.
UCCA called on the FCC to carry a hearing on whether Musk would have the option to stay a licensee and to revoke or limit his direct access to the airwaves.
Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called UCCA’s comments “procedurally inappropriate and substantively unfounded.” In a press release Wednesday, he said the file “repeatedly invokes laws and rules that have no application here” and that it “should never have left the draft folder.”
Starlink controlled 5,504 energetic satellites last month and plans to launch as much as 42,000 more. Space.com reported. SpaceX didn’t reply to Tech Brew’s request for comment via publication.
This report was originally published from Tech Brew.
