Enlarge / Amazon UK warehouse at Leeds Distribution Park on May 27, 2021, in Leeds, England. (credit: Getty Images | Nathan Stirk )
On Thursday, SpaceX called Amazon’s latest protest against Starlink plans an irrelevant “diatribe” that should be ignored by the Federal Communications Commission.
“Another week, another objection from Amazon against a competitor, yet still no sign of progress on Amazon’s own long-rumored satellite system, ” SpaceX told the FCC in a filing . “In its latest diatribe, Amazon spends over six of eight pages on matters wholly irrelevant to the current proceeding or even matters currently before the commission. ”
As we’ve reported , Amazon last month urged the FCC to reject SpaceX’s proposal for a next-generation version of Starlink that could include up to 30, 000 broadband satellites. Amazon claims that SpaceX violated a rule towards incomplete and inconsistent applications by submitting plans for “two mutually exclusive configurations” with “very different orbital parameters. ”
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