The satellite industry is resisting the unified licensing draft order on Nov. 18's agenda (see 2010270065), urging the FCC to go back to some proposals it floated in the NPRM but ultimately rejected. Satellite Industry Association President Tom Stroup told us SIA and individual companies are lobbying the eighth floor. The draft NPRM on satellite use of 17 GHz band, also on the agenda, is considered comparatively uncontroversial.
Q3 semiconductor sales increased 11% globally from Q2 and 5.8% from the 2019 quarter to $113.6 billion, reported the Semiconductor Industry Association Friday evening. The “solid” Q3 gains reflected “normal seasonal trends and increased demand for semiconductor-enabled products, but significant market uncertainty remains due to the pandemic and other macroeconomic factors,” said SIA CEO John Neuffer. September sales to the Americas rose 20.1%.
Q3 semiconductor sales increased 11% globally from Q2 and 5.8% from the 2019 quarter to $113.6 billion, reported the Semiconductor Industry Association Friday evening. The “solid” Q3 gains reflected “normal seasonal trends and increased demand for semiconductor-enabled products, but significant market uncertainty remains due to the pandemic and other macroeconomic factors,” said SIA CEO John Neuffer. September sales to the Americas rose 20.1%.
The FCC is getting no satellite industry consensus on whether collision risk standards should be looked at on a satellite-by-satellite basis or on an aggregated basis. There was broad, though not universal, opposition to indemnification and a post-mission disposal performance bond proposals in the orbital debris Further NPRM adopted in April (see 2004230040). Docket 18-313 comments were due Friday.
The Bureau of Industry and Security should be careful not to place overly broad, unilateral export restrictions on items for crowd control reasons if the controls disproportionately hurt U.S. competitiveness, industry told BIS in comments released this month. But some commenters, including a human rights advocacy group and a Congress member, called for new export restrictions and suggested existing controls -- especially on technologies that contribute to Chinese human rights abuses -- should be tightened.
Some kind of international space traffic management (STM) rules regime is urgently needed, with as many as 120,000 satellites potentially in orbit by decade's end, but first, there needs to be better data on what's on orbit, Satellite Industry Association Policy Senior Director Therese Jones said Tuesday in a Wilson Center webinar. There's little transparency regarding DOD data, and there needs to be an open architecture data repository of not just governmental space situational awareness data, but also planned maneuvers of operators, she said. Aerospace Defense Systems Operations Vice President Jamie Morin said that given the "dramatic democratization" of space, with more countries operating there or interested, the U.S. needs to lead -- not unilaterally act -- on setting STM norms.
August semiconductor revenue reached $36.2 billion globally, up 4.9% from a year earlier and 3.6% higher than July, reported the Semiconductor Industry Association Monday. It was the seventh straight monthly year-over-year increase, “demonstrating the global market so far has remained largely insulated from ongoing global macroeconomic headwinds,” said SIA CEO John Neuffer. He cautioned there’s “still substantial uncertainty for the months ahead.” August sales into the Americas “stood out,” he said, rising 23.6% from August 2019.
August semiconductor revenue reached $36.2 billion globally, up 4.9% from a year earlier and 3.6% higher than July, reported the Semiconductor Industry Association Monday. It was the seventh straight monthly year-over-year increase, “demonstrating the global market so far has remained largely insulated from ongoing global macroeconomic headwinds,” said SIA CEO John Neuffer. He cautioned there’s “still substantial uncertainty for the months ahead.” August sales into the Americas “stood out,” he said, rising 23.6% from August 2019.
U.S. action on and funding for space traffic coordination and management are "needed now" due to the booming number of satellites expected to launch in coming years, the Satellite Industry Association said Thursday. It said there should be a framework for coordinating that space traffic, and it should be technology-agnostic on how satellite operators meet the requirements. SIA said government needs to encourage best practices, and any effective space traffic management system must be global.
The U.S. needs a clearer approach to its export control regime and should coordinate more closely with allies to counter China’s technological rise, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said, adding that the U.S. needs to better communicate to industry about the risks of doing business with China and its government-sponsored human rights abuses.