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Tools, sites and references for satellite connectivity
A curated collection of tools, websites, reports and videos to help you navigate the LEO satellite ecosystem.
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Outdated rules, new space race: modernising LEO spectrum policy (CSIS)
An 11-minute CSIS video (August 2025) in which Matt Pearl (CSIS) and Karina Perez (CCIA) argue that decades-old spectrum rules, notably the power limits shared between LEO and GEO systems, slow US LEO innovation, and explain what modernising them would mean for capacity and competition.
An FCC commissioner on spectrum allocation and broadband (TeleGeography podcast)
Episode 614 of TeleGeography's podcast (68 minutes, June 2025): host Greg Bryan interviews FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington on spectrum allocation and broadband expansion, recorded the week he left the Commission. The clearest hour on how US spectrum decisions get made, which is where every satellite operator's capacity starts.
FCC Space Bureau briefing: how satellite spectrum coordination works
A 50-minute recording of the FCC Space Bureau's 18 April 2024 transparency session on satellite spectrum coordination and Commission procedures, held one year after the Bureau's creation. The authoritative walkthrough of how operators coordinate frequencies and what the FCC expects in a filing.
The FCC Spectrum Dashboard: who holds which frequencies (FCC video)
The FCC's own 2-minute introduction (2010, public domain) to its Spectrum Dashboard, the public tool that shows how bands between 225 MHz and 3.7 GHz are allocated, what they are used for and who holds licences where. Old, but the tool and the questions it answers are still current for anyone tracking direct-to-cell and mid-band spectrum.