[HN Gopher] Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led compani...
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       Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-
       breakers
        
       Author : sdht0
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-09-08 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | slownews45 wrote:
       | The issue is this. The merits of most of these Amazon / Viasat
       | attacks or horribly weak.
       | 
       | here is the actual rule spaceX is (supposedly) violating:
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       | https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/25.112
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       | It simply says applications should be complete. SpaceX's
       | application is complete as far as I can tell.
       | 
       | What's really weird, the Amazon application is very INCOMPLETE.
       | How in the world is amazon complaining here?
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       | SpaceX identifies two possible launch vehicles. Does anyone know
       | what Amazon will be using for their constellation? How about
       | pinning that down first before complaining that SpaceX has two
       | options on table.
       | 
       | As to the law:
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       | I could find nothing that a company can propose only one
       | constellation. That's not in the law. Amazon cites 47 C.F.R. SS
       | 25.112(a)(1)
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       | Which says
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       | "The application is defective with respect to completeness of
       | answers to questions, informational showings, internal
       | inconsistencies, execution, or other matters of a formal
       | character;"
       | 
       | There is nothing in here about not being allowed to have options.
        
       | rdtwo wrote:
       | People in glass castles... something about bricks
        
         | happytiger wrote:
         | Right? I get it. But ship your own self first... then play the
         | regulator game. Talk or walk or it just looks like waaaa.
        
       | notabanker wrote:
       | There's this phrase "elite lawlessness" that comes to mind.
       | Perhaps billionaires stepping on each others toes and getting
       | into legal tussles is our best hope to contain the lawlessness.
        
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