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An int'l affairs office will advance regulation and licensing while a new space bureau will drive forward the agency’s statutory obligations, and prioritize the emerging space economy.

Top time and frequency experts this month backed a proposed years-long mandate to refresh thinking and procedures stemming from the need and practice of using the leap second time interval, in bids to boost certainty for the modern age, and for scientific, telecom, financial and many other communities.

The FCC asked if an nGSO allocation would further degrade the reference situation for digital broadcasting satellite stations operating in accordance with the RR Appendix 30 plan.  It also asked about domestic or international coordination issues, or technical challenges, that may need to be addressed.

Stations in the aeronautical and maritime mobile services operating in the band 4800-4990 MHz and located in international airspace and waters “can only be fully protected from IMT on the basis of the pfd limit in RR No. 5.441B,” NATO said.

Proposed provisions for meteorological radars will help to deliver more specialized early detection products that are increasingly difficult to provide with just wider-area monitoring.

Assistant director for spectrum and telecom policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Parameters for the functional description to be used in developing software tools for determining conformity of nGSO FSS systems or networks with limits contained in RR Article 22.

Dialogue to Spur Sharing at a “Different Level,” with Carriers, OEMs Engaged in Classified Settings

New information this month from Ligado was thin after it scrubbed a trial deployment in September, and recent evaluations — from the National Academy of Sciences, and for NOAA — added certainty to uncertainty about the possible scope of operations, submittals to various FCC proceedings this month suggested.  Calls for the FCC to reel-in various regulatory bids were voiced again.

Monitoring and enforcement authorities in wider Europe were asked to build-up shared expertise and capacities to zero-in on ever smaller sources of interference to GNSS and other services, ANFR proposed this month in a report to the CEPT working group on monitoring and enforcement.  Agencies should team up with law enforcement, customs and maritime authorities to stem risks to GNSS from small consumer-grade devices and jammers, ANFR said.

CONFERENCE PREPARATORY energy needed to keep the WRC-23 agenda within its mandate.

SOS-via-satellite jockeys with GMDSS for certainty.

Eumetnet and WMO.

European Space Agency and the SFCG.

The U.S., about 15 countries, leadership of the EU Council, and CEPT responded during a plenary meeting 12 Oct. to unspecified comments that were said to lack courtesy and respect.  Officials indicated some delegates had failed to hold up standards of behavior expected of all participants.  No official cited a speaker, or precisely the comments that prompted a string of interventions.  Speakers did not obviously link poor conduct with any outcome.  One official referred to undue and discourteous influence, however the precise context was not immediately obvious.

Resolution-level ITU guidance on sustainability of spectrum and associated resources for space use reflects a first step in a broader impulse to ensure equitable access to space resources, including how nGSO satellite systems and GSO networks can be harmonized for access, developing country officials variously said during an Oct. 12 plenary meeting at the agency’s top policy-setting conference this month.  Provisional PP-22 final acts Oct. 18 were not available to the public.

Africa’s first opportunity in 2027.

ITU-R teed up last month a four-year mandate to better understand radiated energy thrown from electrical components, the impact on use of certain frequencies and applications, according to a new question that shapes work for experts in a group (WP1A) on spectrum engineering techniques.  The incidence of radio noise “sets a practical limit” to the performance and the utility of the terrestrial, space and radio astronomy services, the mandate said.  Results in response to the mandate on the impact of unintentional radio frequency energy generated by electrical or electronic apparatus to the radiocommunication services, are slated for completion before 2027.

A high-level regulatory definition for space weather must be agreed at WRC-23 to be included in RR Article 1, perhaps changes to RR Article 4 on guidance on assignment and use of frequencies, or possibly at the level of an ITU-R resolution, vetted experts advising the WMO and national authorities on space weather and radiocommunication matters indicated this month.  A regulatory strategy is needed in the run-up to WRC-23 to shape goals that will be achievable at WRC-27,  a meteorological expert said referring to ITU-R work developing spectrum requirements, and the need for protection of receive-only use.  Obtaining discreet protection for receive-only must be sufficiently surgical to be acceptable, he said.  Education and outreach are needed to familiarize other spectrum users, and to calm nerves, the expert suggested.

An ad hoc bid to combine impulses into a single response to the U.N. Space2030 agenda was abandoned in favor of a new resolution on the drive adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, and changes to an existing resolution on ensuing transparency and sustainability and advancing confidence-building measures in outer space activities.  Nigeria said the decision to split the work produced short-term challenges the chairman of an ad hoc group on satellite policy issues was able to navigate with his “good offices.”

The dawn of a new era of development in space will bring challenges for the international community, its various constituencies, strains from historical network filings, adaptation, and possibly an extended BR mandate, speakers said 10 Oct. as an ad hoc group on space policy issues concluded its work.

Officials at PP-22 praised the leader of informal talks on satellite issues, Khalid Al Awadi, as a rising force able to shepherd work through challenges and pressures, which this month delivered on proposals by African and developing countries, while foreshadowing future work, speakers said 10 Oct. as an ad hoc group on space policy issues concluded its work. “Because of his leadership … we are confident to the success of WRC-23 next year in Dubai,” a State Department official said during a meeting of Com5 on policy and legal matters. Alexandre Vallet and former BR staffer Kavouss Arasteh, also garnered praise for work in informal configurations. Vallet is BR chief of the space services department. Arasteh was on the mic for Iran during PP-22. Al Awadi is manager of space and broadcasting services at the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority.

EPIRB and EBIRB-AIS devices.  UNOG Blue Book.

A new ITU resolution on the sustainability of radio spectrum and associated satellite orbit resources for space services garnered views from an as-yet-unspecified group of countries which invited the BR to ensure its procedures and working methods continue to support the sustainability of outer space, speakers variously said 10 Oct. during a meeting of the Com5 group on policy and legal matters.  The impulse was reported from an ad hoc group on space issues, which is chaired by Khalid Al Awadi, manager of space and broadcasting services at the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority.  The ad hoc group met eight times last week during ITU’s top policy-setting conference, Al Awadi said.

Persons linked to control of physical and logical access to their 5G core network elements to be meaningfully located in the EU.

Alternative measures deemed insufficient to mitigate the magnitude of the security risk.