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The Satellite Industry Assn. (SIA) asked the FCC to withdraw a le...

The Satellite Industry Assn. (SIA) asked the FCC to withdraw a letter it had submitted recently on the orbital debris issue because there wasn’t a consensus among its members. The satellite industry has been concerned of late that new…

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rules would be adopted without industry input (CD Dec 12 p11). The letter had asked the Commission to refrain from adopting a rule changing station-keeping tolerance for geostationary satellite orbit (GSO) mobile satellite service (MSS) operators. However, the request doesn’t “reflect a consensus position among the members,” SIA said.