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FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
The US independent regulatory agency responsible for licensing all commercial satellite systems operating in the United States or serving US customers, including spectrum authorisation, orbital debris mitigation rule-making, and Earth station licensing.
Frequency Coordination
The bilateral or multilateral negotiation process between satellite operators — mediated by national administrations and the ITU — to ensure that a new satellite network does not cause harmful radio interference to existing networks operating in the same frequency bands.
Frequency Reuse
The technique of transmitting on the same frequency band simultaneously in multiple geographically separated spot beams, increasing total system capacity by a factor equal to the reuse factor — the foundational principle enabling High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems to deliver 50–100× the capacity of traditional wide-beam satellites.