FCC Space Bureau Chief: 'We Are in the Space Industrial Revolution'

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2025 – Jay Schwarz, Chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Space Bureau, used his Friday evening keynote at the TPRC conference here to highlight the importance of deregulation in space communications.

Framing his remarks around the rapid expansion of the satellite industry, Schwarz declared that “we are living right now in the space industrial revolution.” 

He likened the surge in satellite launches to the “hockey stick” of the Industrial Revolution: “If you look at a chart showing the number of objects launched into space since 1957, it’s the space hockey stick… flat for decades, and then ten years ago, it goes almost vertical.”