Everything, everywhere, all at once: 5 space stories from 2023

Everything, everywhere, all at once: 5 space stories from 2023
Everything, everywhere, all at once: 5 space stories from 2023

There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in space, from Geneva to Washington to Colorado Springs to Los Angeles.

US wins protections for Pentagon radar spectrum at WRC-23

US wins protections for Pentagon radar spectrum at WRC-23
US wins protections for Pentagon radar spectrum at WRC-23

The US and its allies managed to block a move by China to open up the 6 GHz band Beijing uses for 5G mobile wireless communications to global use — a move that would have empowered Chinese telecom firms such as Huawei.

ITU rules meeting: Geopolitical ‘fireworks,’ DoD spectrum challenges

ITU rules meeting: Geopolitical ‘fireworks,’ DoD spectrum challenges
ITU rules meeting: Geopolitical ‘fireworks,’ DoD spectrum challenges

Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.

International meeting could imperil Pentagon’s radar, intel-gathering systems

International meeting could imperil Pentagon’s radar, intel-gathering systems
International meeting could imperil Pentagon’s radar, intel-gathering systems

The month-long World Radiocommunications Conference in Dubai will decide whether to change how spectrum use is allocate among various users – including spectrum needed by DoD planes and ships operating abroad.

US Should Work With UN To Secure 5G Spectrum: DoD Deputy CIO

US Should Work With UN To Secure 5G Spectrum: DoD Deputy CIO
US Should Work With UN To Secure 5G Spectrum: DoD Deputy CIO

“Key task will be pursuing coalition partnerships for electromagnetic spectrum interoperability, to ensure future maneuver in EMS is not limited by non-US capability,” Moorefield said.

Ligado Exemplifies Broken US Spectrum Management: Industry Experts

“There’s a lot of inefficiencies in the process. But it’s basically a fight, with each community pressing its case to its own regulatory body,” says Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for technology, policy and regulation.

Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote

Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote
Iridium Publicly Threatens Lawsuit To Overturn FCC’s Ligado Vote

“I think there’s some very compelling petitions for reconsideration before the FCC right now, so I’m hoping that they would hit the pause button,” says Iridium’s legal rep Robert McDowell.

UN Agency Opens International Email Traffic To Government Scrutinty

The International Telecommunications Union sent shock waves across the Internet with an agreement approved last night which would give countries a right to access international telecommunications services including Internet traffic. While the U.S., Canada, Australia, Norway, Denmark, and other countries refused to go along with the measure, the motion carried in a decision that caught…

UN Seeks Unprecedented Control Of Global Internet Traffic

The United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union has taken the unprecedented step of adopting a standard for the Internet that would essentially permit eavesdropping on a global basis. According to a just-published piece on the RT.com web site, ITU members decided to adopt a standard, known as Y.2770, which would permit the inspection of Internet traffic.…