WCCFTECH by Ramish Zafar 1/31/2021
In meetings with FCC Commissioners' representatives, Space Exploration Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) subsidiary SpaceX LLC. has hit hard at competitor Amazon's opposition to its proposed Starlink modification. SpaceX LLC's director of satellite policy Mr. David Goldman met with the representatives over the course of last week, and in these meetings, he reiterated SpaceX's claims that competitor statements of the Starlink modification causing interference to their systems are based on cherry-picked data and as such are not accurate representations of reality.
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Mr. Goldman's presentation made to the FCC officials builds up on SpaceX's latest shift in the narrative which first emerged earlier this month. While before 2021 started, the battle for Starlink modification was primarily between Amazon and SpaceX, with other firms joining in as side players, now SpaceX is taking a broad aim at all of its competitors.
The first evidence for this surfaced during a presentation that the SpaceX executive made before Commission representatives during the third week of this month. Slide 12 of this presentation (pictured below) summarized all competitor arguments and rejected them in one broad scope by asserting that the claims did not represent all aspects of the modification together to reach their conclusions. These aspects are a lower altitude for Starlinks, a lower ground station elevation angle and a lower satellite downlink power level.
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