SpaceX is conducting Starlink assessments in Romania to enhance companies. Starlink assessments began in July and are anticipated to final 6 months. SpaceX is engaged on the venture with Romania’s Nationwide Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM).
SpaceX’s Starlink assessments in Romania purpose to exhibit {that a} international rule, the boundaries of non-geostationary satellites like Starlink, will be relaxed. The rule dates again to the Nineteen Nineties and was set to make sure that new-generation, non-geostationary satellites don’t have an effect on the operation of traditional, geostationary satellites. The Worldwide Telecommunications Union (ITU)—a United Nations company—developed and imposes the worldwide rule.
The ITU’s rule limits the ability low-orbit satellites like Starlink can transmit to and from floor gear. The restrict known as the Equal Energy Flux Density (EPFD).
Earlier this 12 months, SpaceX despatched a letter to the US Federal Communications Fee (FCC) urging it to revise its satellite tv for pc guidelines, referring to the EPFD restrict.
“The time has come to unleash the ability of next-generation satellite tv for pc programs to attach the American folks in each nook of the nation by revising antiquated energy restrictions to match the fashionable area age,” wrote SpaceX within the letter.
In a current X submit, Elon Musk addressed SpaceX’s problem with the EPFD restrict.
“The rule needs to be that Starlink can function at no matter energy degree doesn’t disrupt different communication programs, not some arbitrarily low energy restrict.”
That is actually necessary.
The rule needs to be that Starlink can function at no matter energy degree doesn’t disrupt different communication programs, not some arbitrarily low energy restrict!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024
Learn SpaceX’s letter to the FCC beneath!
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