Comments on: A space journalist suddenly notices that the FCC has no legal authority to regulate space junk https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:25:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pawn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1520051 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:25:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1520051 “What this reporter should have known and reported is that both the House and the Senate have disgreed, forcefully. In the House one bill was introduced to give the de-orbit regulatory power to the FAA, while later rejecting a second bill that would have given that power to the FCC. The Senate meanwhile introduced its own bill giving this de-orbit regulatory power to the FAA and Commerce, not the FCC.”

Thanks for pointing this out Bob. FCC needs to stay in it’s wheelhouse.

Every bureaucrat want to be seen as relevant and Space is now sexy due to Elon.

The evolution of space law is going to be interesting.

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1520049 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:13:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1520049 Robert,
You are right. I missed an entire paragraph!

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1520042 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:41:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1520042 In reply to Edward.

Edward: Thank you for providing a list of all my posts noting the FCC’s illegal power grab. However, you did not read my post very carefully. I made it very clear I have been covering this subject for years, while Space News has not. To quote the 2nd paragraph after the blockquote: “As an old-fashioned American who believes in freedom and limited government (as clearly established by our Constitution) I had recognized this legal fact immediately in January 2023, when the FCC first made its power grab.”

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1520037 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:24:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1520037 Robert,
Haven’t you been pointing out for a few years that the FCC is overreaching its authority? You didn’t mention that in your post, making it sound as though Space News (which I have been reading for almost 30 years) is the first to notice. This may be a partial list of the posts in which you noted the FCC’s overreach:

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/fcc-decides-to-expand-its-power-in-space/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fcc-proposes-new-regulation-requiring-satellites-to-be-de-orbited-five-years-after-mission-end/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fcc-approves-new-regulation-requiring-defunct-satellite-deorbit-in-five-years/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/head-of-commerces-space-office-questions-new-fcc-regulations-on-space-junk/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fcc-chief-proposes-agency-reorganization-of-its-space-related-bureaucracy/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/several-major-rocket-companies-to-the-fcc-stay-out/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fcc-votes-to-create-its-own-space-bureaucracy-despite-lacking-statutory-authority/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-subcommittee-proposes-five-bills-that-would-change-fcc-operations/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fcc-makes-official-its-regulatory-power-grab-beyond-its-statutory-authority/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-rejects-fcc-bill-because-the-bill-approved-fccs-recent-power-grab/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/senate-committee-gives-nasa-and-commerce-responsibility-for-removing-space-junk/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/unless-congress-truly-acts-soon-the-unelected-administrative-state-will-rule-unopposed/

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-and-fcc-now-competing-for-the-honor-of-regulating-commercial-space-more/

]]> By: Brewingfrog https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1520009 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:35:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1520009 I believe “thunk” is acceptable for the past-tense of “think” in these present days. After all, Dizzy Dean used the word “slud” as a past-tense of “slid” fairly often, and who will object to what the estimable Mr. Dean has to say?

]]> By: Chester Peake https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-space-journalist-suddenly-notices-that-the-fcc-has-no-legal-authority-to-regulate-space-junk/#comment-1519998 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:14:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108442#comment-1519998 Addressing the orbital debris issue is something which really does need to be done. The FCC is poorly qualified to do so, however.

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