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Screenshot of FCC approval to launch FM-1 Satellite

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 $ASTS - FCC approves the launch of FM-1 Satellite! Let's do this!

Closeup picture of commercial fireworks exploding in the sky

It's been a long time since I took firework pics. Finally managed to get out and do it this year with my new Nikon Z8.

$ASTS another record high. Only one modest pullback this entire rally so far. The move up has been very organized despite the steepness of the move. No sloppy buying or sloppy selling indicating any real capitulation from those on the sidelines rushing in with FOMO or from short sellers panic covering. Compare it to last year's rally where it was similar price action leading up to the final blowoff top where we saw a substantial increase in volume coupled with sloppy buying and selling intraday. TLDR: Reformed thinks higher *NFA

Quality $ASTS content from that other place. I agree with Reformed Trader's commentary that this run is orderly. This is not a blowoff moment. We are going higher.

Two nervous girls as the storm approaches Des Moines.

This *IS* good to see. I hope to see more resistance / complaints in the coming weeks from other entities.

Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Space Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Seek Comment on Filings of SpaceX and T-Mobile Requesting to Establish Supplemental Coverage from Space Application for Authority for Modification of the SpaceX NGSO Satellite System to Add a Direct to Cellular System ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) GN Docket No. 23-135; ICFS File Nos. SAT- MOD-20230207-00021, SAT-AMD-20240322- 00061 Call Sign S3069 ECHOSTAR CORPORATION’S APPLICATION FOR REVIEW EchoStar Corporation (“EchoStar”) respectfully seeks Commission review of the Space Bureau’s decision to grant SpaceX’s waiver of the aggregate out-of-band interference limits for supplemental coverage from space (“SCS”).1 Instead of finding that harmful interference would be unlikely at the higher power levels proposed by SpaceX, the Bureau failed to make any decision about the likelihood of harmful interference, granted the waiver, and put the burden on EchoStar to protect itself. That decision was not reasoned, because the Bureau failed to show that the Commission’s concerns underlying Section 25.202(k)(1) had changed, been eliminated, or rendered unlikely. It was also erroneous because the plain text of the Communications Act vests the Commission with the responsibility to “prevent interference” before it happens.2 Addressing interference after it already happens does not meet that mark.

2 burden to the Commission, not EchoStar. Given all this, the waiver grant could not have plausibly served the public interest. The Commission should reverse the Bureau. QUESTION PRESENTED In March 2024, the Commission adopted the SCS Order, which, among other things, set an aggregate out-of-band of band interference limit for supplemental coverage from space services.3 The Commission described that limit as “necessary” to protect wireless operators from harmful interference, and proponents of weaker limits provided “no evidence” supporting their claims.4 Despite that, less than a year later, the Space Bureau adopted the Waiver Order, waiving this limit for SpaceX without deciding that harmful interference would be unlikely.5 Did this decision improperly conflict with the SCS Order, Section 303(f) of the Communications Act, and the good cause standard for waivers in Section 1.3 of the Commission’s rules?6 BACKGROUND The SCS Order crafted a regulatory framework for SCS service, including licensing and service rules to prevent harmful interference. One of those rules is Section 25.202(k)(1), setting the aggregate out-of-band interference limit for the service at -120 dBW/m2/MHz.7 The

8 agency by the statute.”35 The Communications Act tasks the Commission with making “such regulations not inconsistent with law as it may deem necessary to prevent interference between stations[.]”36 The Commission’s SCS Order did that for SCS by adopting the aggregate out-of- band interference limit in Section 25.202(k)(1) that was “necessary” to protect adjacent-band wireless networks from harmful interference.37 Despite the Commission’s prior finding that out-of-band interference concerns warrant a rule limiting aggregate emissions, the Bureau waived Section 25.202(k)(1) as requested by SpaceX.38 In doing so, the Bureau failed to determine that the harmful interference concerns described in the SCS Order that led to the adoption of Section 25.202(k)(1) had been eliminated. Instead, all the Bureau said was that “SpaceX has provided engineering analyses in support of its claim that harmful interference in adjacent bands is unlikely” and that “T-Mobile, an adjacent band terrestrial operator . . . presents its own technical analyses in which it concludes that the waiver poses a low likelihood of harmful interference.”39 That is as far as it went. The Bureau never endorsed the conclusions of either analysis, nor did it reject the technical claims of AT&T, Verizon, and EchoStar raised in the records for both the SCS Order and the Waiver Order. AT&T demonstrated that it would suffer a devastating 18% reduction in throughput.40 But the Waiver Order allowed SpaceX to operate at higher power levels regardless. This failure to rule

9 out harmful interference conflicts with the SCS Order’s technical reasons for adopting Section 25.202(k)(1). The Bureau tried to cover this hole in its decisionmaking by conditioning SpaceX’s authorization on a requirement to not cause harmful interference and to address any complaints of harmful interference from adjacent band users.41 But this condition contravenes the Communications Act’s mandate to make rules that “prevent interference between stations[.]”42 As the Supreme Court has held, the word “prevent” means “to render (an intended, possible, or likely action or event) impractical or impossible by anticipatory action.”43 In other words, “prevent” means to stop something before it happens. Accordingly, the Commission’s statutory responsibility is to make rules that stop harmful interference at its inception, just like Section 25.202(k)(1) is supposed to do. But unlike an aggregate power limit, the condition in the Waiver Order allows SpaceX and T-Mobile to interfere with adjacent band users like EchoStar up until EchoStar detects and reports the interference. Because this non-anticipatory measure only kicks in after EchoStar suffers from harmful interference, it does not satisfy the prevention required by the plain text of the Communications Act. In any event, the Bureau knows that it is immensely difficult for carriers to detect a particular source of interference. In reality, the condition forces EchoStar to take up this burden just to keep its basic rights as a licensee. Yet Congress placed the burden to prevent harmful interference on the Commission and those causing it, not the victim operators.44

Nice to see Echostar push back on the FCC's "arbitrary and capricious" decision to grant the SpaceX request for a waiver of the OOBE limit. $ASTS 🥊
www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

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So of course, less than a month after I decided to retire early so I could travel while I still had health and ability, I started having hip problems and can barely walk. MRI tomorrow. Trip to Amsterdam later this month has been canceled. UGH.

Today is the 60th anniversary of the Selma race riot known as "Bloody Sunday". I was in high school in the late 70's and it still pisses me off to this day that we were never taught about it.

Maybe Musk should spend more of his time paying attention to his SpaceX rockets and less time plotting to destroy our economy.

EXACTLY. And the dems seem to be just standing by and watching when we need voices SCREAMING about this! So frustrating..

on the bigger picture

When no other reply is accurate.

Snowstorms started hitting differently the year I went to the garage and there was a snow shovel hanging on the wall where my sled used to be.

I would seriously give my life savings ($328) to see Trump rolling his eyes at this half-time show!

Every time the Eagles score, Taylor Swift glares at Kelce and writes another song.

Update: One of the neighbor's dropped out tonight. Jerk.

NO PING FOR YOU!

We have an unspoken contest in our neighborhood who will be the last to crumble and shut 'em off. It's now February 7th, and there are four of us left. 5th one took his down last weekend. Seriously considering the permanent lights that you can change color with the seasons....

Awwww... Use it with Linux and thank me later.

A small firework shack outside a tiny volunteer fire department in South Dakota labeled "Gregory Ambulance and Fireworks"

I called this masterpiece "Conflict of Interest"

Yeah.... Those were the good ol' days

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

I feel like a lot of them are complicit.

But our entire system of government is broken right now, so there will be no repercussions. What can "We the people who actually care" do about it? I feel so powerless.

True Fact: I am still using the CompuServe mouse pad that came with my 2400 Baud modem in 1986.

As we all know, encryption is a big deal in cybersecurity.
I shall henceforth refer to grinding my coffee beans as "Encrypting the Beans"

Awww... I just noticed some people from work are following me so now I can't complain about work. (maybe)
Lol next post will be about work.

Welcome to Iowa.