NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 10 March
2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of the United
States of America.
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Title: Allocation
of Spectrum for Non-Federal Space Launch Operations
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Notified measure published - date: 7 March 2025
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are effective 7 April 2025, except for amendatory instruction 9 (adding Sec.
26.202(d)), which is indefinitely delayed. The Federal Communications
Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the
effective date of this rule section.
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Text of final measure available from[1]:
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/TBT/USA/final_measure/25_01916_00_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/TBT/USA/final_measure/25_01916_01_e.pdf
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Description: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) implements certain provisions of the Launch Communications Act (LCA) enacted 26 September 2024, governing
the authorization and facilitation of commercial space operations in the
2025-2110 MHz, 2200- 2290 MHz, and 2360-2395 MHz bands (collectively, the LCA
bands). To meet this statutory mandate, the Commission builds upon its action
in the September 2023 Second Report and Order which, among other things,
reallocated the 2025-2110 MHz and 2200-2290 MHz bands for non-Federal Space
Operation on a secondary basis and adopted, for these two bands, space launch
licensing framework. Specifically, the Commission reallocates the 2360-2395 MHz
band on a secondary basis for Space Operation. Next, the Commission
incorporates the 2360-2395 MHz band into its existing part 26 space launch
regulatory framework that includes, for example, space launch licensing and
frequency coordination rules. In order to protect critical Federal and
non-Federal flight testing operations, we incorporate into our certain
technical rules from our current. Finally, the Commission confirms that the
specific licensing, registration, frequency coordination, and frequency
coordinator selection procedures, to be refined by the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau or WTB) on delegated authority, will apply to
the LCA bands.
The rules are effective 7 April 2025, except for amendatory
instruction 9 (adding Sec. 26.202(d)), which is indefinitely delayed. The
Federal Communications Commission will publish a document in the Federal
Register announcing the effective date of this rule section.
90 Federal Register (FR) 11480, 7 March 2025; Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part
2 and 26:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-07/html/2025-02961.htm
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-07/pdf/2025-02961.pdf
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-132A1.pdf
This final rule is identified by ET Docket No. 13-115 and FCC 24-132. The Docket Folders are available on
the FCC's website (links above) and provide access to associated documents.
Comments are accessible from the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2213-115%22)).
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[1] This information can be provided by including a website address, a
pdf attachment, or other information on where the text of the final/modified
measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.