SpaceX Still at Odds on Sharing Rules with SES, Viasat
Geostationary systems fear loosening rules on LEO providers would create interference.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 2026 – SpaceX is still fiercely at odds with incumbent satellite companies over whether federal regulators should revise the rules governing how they share spectrum.
A plan put forward by Luxembourg-based SES “shackles next-generation satellite operations with massive constraints that have been definitively proven to be unnecessary and that demonstrably inflict harm on the rapidly growing millions of Americans that depend on next generation satellite systems for broadband access,” SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission this month.
Viasat, meanwhile, called a recent SpaceX study on the issue “bad science” that “does not deviate from this misguided path, which SpaceX has followed for years in hopes of convincing regulators to allow it to generate increased interference into [geostationary orbit] networks and other [low-Earth orbit] systems and further entrench its dominant position in space.”
