When we went through the FCC ELS it certainly wasn't "without paperwork". But most of the paperwork was just reformatting engineering work that needed to be don

When we went through the FCC ELS it certainly wasn't "without paperwork". But most of the paperwork was just reformatting engineering work that needed to be done regardless of the FCC process. "where is the transmitter going to be?" "where is the receiver going to be?" "how is the cubesat going to be disposed of?" "what frequencies will be used?" "does anyone on the team do DRUGS?" etc The whole process took a couple months, with IMO is fairly lightweight for a massive government bureaucracy like the FCC