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A startup called Swarm Technologies has had its authorization for an upcoming satellite launch revoked by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after it flew four satellites on an Indian rocket without receiving authorization from the FCC:
On 12 January, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket blasted off from India's eastern coast. While its primary cargo was a large Indian mapping satellite, dozens of secondary CubeSats from other countries travelled along with it. Seattle-based Planetary Resources supplied a spacecraft that will test prospecting tools for future asteroid miners, Canadian company Telesat launched a broadband communications satellite, and a British Earth-observation mission called Carbonite will capture high-definition video of the planet's surface.
Also on board were four small satellites that probably should not have been there. SpaceBee-1, 2, 3, and 4 were briefly described by the Indian space agency ISRO as "two-way satellite communications and data relay" devices from the United States. No operator was specified, and only ISRO publicly noted that they successfully reached orbit the same day.
[...] The only problem is, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had dismissed Swarm's application for its experimental satellites a month earlier, on safety grounds. The FCC is responsible for regulating commercial satellites, including minimizing the chance of accidents in space. It feared that the four SpaceBees now orbiting the Earth would pose an unacceptable collision risk for other spacecraft. If confirmed, this would be the first ever unauthorized launch of commercial satellites.
On Wednesday, the FCC sent Swarm a letter revoking its authorization for a follow-up mission with four more satellites, due to launch next month. A pending application for a large market trial of Swarm's system with two Fortune 100 companies could also be in jeopardy.
The concept uses satellites to send Internet of Things (IoT) device data to the Internet. Solar-powered gateways would collect data from nearby IoT devices, and beam it to a SpaceBEE satellite using VHF radio. The data would then be beamed down to Internet-connected ground stations.
The company was denied approval to launch 10 cm × 10 cm × 2.8 cm sized SpaceBEEs due to the craft being too small to reliably track using the United States Space Surveillance Network.
Previously: India Launches 31 Satellites, Puts Cartosat-2 Into Orbit
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday March 12 2018, @12:17PM (8 children)
I'd suggest you to inform yourself before:
- on the availability of the actual tinfoil [wikipedia.org]
- the professionals always work with Al foiil [zapatopi.net] - thinking that tinfoil is better is a plot of the government to send you on an expensive wild goose chase after pure tin foil and ruin you financially in the process;
- of course, the govt conspirators will have you believe that Al-foil hats are actually helping them steal your thoughts better [rationalwiki.org]. If you give course to their suggestion, you'll remain absolutely unprotected (well, except your guns, but the givt does worry too much about them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday March 12 2018, @12:44PM (7 children)
Yes but if I were to wear an aluminum foil I would be such professional as to be part of a THINK TANK and instead of soylentnews I would be BOMBARDING my theories onto the REAL WORLD! :)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday March 12 2018, @12:57PM (3 children)
No think tank membership is complete without the MindGuard for Linux [zapatopi.net].
Sure, projecting the mind is important, but so it is protecting it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday March 12 2018, @02:58PM (2 children)
What is this? I already feel like I need to download it. May be port it to linux v> 3.0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 12 2018, @05:19PM (1 child)
It is much to late:
If you didn't get in on the ground floor, you'll have to gut your computer to remove all the copper. That really cool Thermaltake all-copper heatsink? Uh-huh - it's part of the conspiracy.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday March 12 2018, @06:46PM
Hmm.... fortunately I have a system circa 1997 lying around somewhere. Let me see how to measure its copper content...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)
The joke is on you, Cigarguy. There is no real world. You are in the Matrix.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday March 12 2018, @06:44PM (1 child)
But is it a real matrix?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 12 2018, @07:45PM
Some guy, determined to leave town got to the edge of town, and the road ended. Let me find that . . .
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/ [imdb.com]
At the end of the movie, you're left wondering how many levels there really are. Maybe the entire universe is just a simulation.