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The achairman ajit pai greeting witnesses as the meeting is set to get under way shortly. Well have live allday coverage here on cspan3. Welcome. December 2017 meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, turn the floor over to you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you, and good morning commissioners. The purpose of the federal Communications Commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the gover...

In favor of a light touch framework that worked for decades prior to 2016. The declaratory ruling also reinstates the private mobile state ossification of mobile broad and Internet Access service and returns to the commissions definition of interconnected service that existed prior to 2015. The item restores the authority of the federal trade commission to enforce Consumer Protection and antitrust laws. It also clarifies the effects of the return to a recent protest reclassification of a Regulat...

The New Sarum Singers were in fine form with their Christmas Time concert, raising a magnificent £430 for the Salisbury Street Pastors (registered…

SpaceX may attempt a risky maneuver - using its launch tower and chopstick arms to catch a returning Starship booster rocket - during its first orbital launch.

SpaceX has successfully completed two Falcon 9 launches and booster landings in just 15 hours, delivering around 20 metric tons (44,000 lb) of satellites to orbit. Carrying an expendable upper stage, payload fairing, and Turkey’s Turksat 5B geostationary communications satellite, Falcon 9 booster B1067 lifted off right on schedule at 10:58 pm EDT. Nine minutes […]

April 21, 2021 The US Department of Defense wants to find out if SpaceX can make a miniature, wireless version of the antennas currently used to connect to Starlink satellite internet. The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) announced its interest in miniaturized Starlink terminals as part of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals for dozens of small research and development projects under the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. At this stage, just hours af...

April 6, 2021 SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. Labeled “GSE” for Ground Support Equipment, the first signs of those self-built storage tanks began appearing at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship factory less than two months ago in mid-February. A matter of weeks later, the first o...

In a new rocket reusability first, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster has successfully completed its ninth orbital-class launch and landing, leaving the company just one mission away from a target that’s been front and center for years. Known as Starlink V1 L21 or Starlink-21, today’s launch also set no less than three more records on […]

Days after SpaceX won a NASA contract to launch a galaxy-mapping space telescope, the space agency has selected Falcon Heavy to launch a small space station to the Moon some four years from now. Loosely known as Gateway, NASA and a few of its ‘centers’ have been floating the concept for years – partially on […]

February 1, 2021 SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket launch in almost two years has entered the final stages of preparations – flight hardware acceptance testing, delivery, and assembly. Comprised of five major elements, the vast majority of the challenges of building and launching Falcon Heavy come from the rocket’s three first-stage boosters – each more or less equivalent to a single-core Falcon 9 booster. Falcon Heavy’s twin side boosters are by far the most visually recognizable si...