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Wow - HN folks just go for this garbage? Lots of good quotes from the pushback " In fact, Amazon has not had a single meeting with the Commission this year ab

Wow - HN folks just go for this garbage? Lots of good quotes from the pushback " In fact, Amazon has not had a single meeting with the Commission this year about how it intends to resolve the Commission’s interference or safety concerns, but it has had 15 meetings in that same span just about SpaceX. While Amazon has waited 15 months to explain how its system works, it has lodged objections to SpaceX on average about every 16 days this year." So you have one company actually launching and serving customers, and another who has done nothing, not even updating FCC on its plans in 15 months! And then every 16 days is lodging objections? Let me understand this clearly - is it the FCC jobs to protect Amazon from being slow, or to advance consumer access to internet and communications? Because we should be pushing HARD for the folks actually delivering.

AnssiH 5y ago
Personally I don't believe the (non-)progress Amazon's plans have any relevance with whether their complaints about SpaceX are abusive. "Amazon files more complaints than SpaceX" is similarly irrelevant. I consider the complaints abusive only if they are entirely without merit and are just taking FCC's time for nothing (which they might still be - but just SpaceX saying so is not enough for me).
- whoknowswhat11 5y ago
  You realize the blue origin complaints are that SpaceX plans are too "speculative"? The blue origin plans as an example have no clarity on so many key elements its not even funny - but SpaceX is not protesting them saying they are speculative. There are many other filings also very speculative. Or that haven't even done debris mitigation work (they use a non US home state to try and avoid the work). No fuss for any of these, but they are out of the woodwork if SpaceX does anything. The mind boggling hypocrisy of it all is crazy. They have time to file 200 page complaints, bring big teams to complain. They expect us to believe they haven't evaluated the SpaceX approach before doing their own designs (one complaint, blue origin, despite tons of money, claims they can't / don't look at the spaceX designs).

AnssiH 5y ago

Personally I don't believe the (non-)progress Amazon's plans have any relevance with whether their complaints about SpaceX are abusive. "Amazon files more complaints than SpaceX" is similarly irrelevant. I consider the complaints abusive only if they are entirely without merit and are just taking FCC's time for nothing (which they might still be - but just SpaceX saying so is not enough for me).

whoknowswhat11 5y ago
You realize the blue origin complaints are that SpaceX plans are too "speculative"? The blue origin plans as an example have no clarity on so many key elements its not even funny - but SpaceX is not protesting them saying they are speculative. There are many other filings also very speculative. Or that haven't even done debris mitigation work (they use a non US home state to try and avoid the work). No fuss for any of these, but they are out of the woodwork if SpaceX does anything. The mind boggling hypocrisy of it all is crazy. They have time to file 200 page complaints, bring big teams to complain. They expect us to believe they haven't evaluated the SpaceX approach before doing their own designs (one complaint, blue origin, despite tons of money, claims they can't / don't look at the spaceX designs).