Kuiper Systems, a subsidiary Amazon.com, in an appeal to the US Federal Communications Commission, sharply commented on the actions of SpaceX, accusing it of violating and ignoring general rules. This is written by Bloomberg.
The company controlled by the American billionaire Jeff Bezos said that Elon Musk's SpaceX adheres to the position that " the rules are intended for other people." Formally, the proceedings between the parties are related to the orbital parameters of the satellites of the Kuiper and Starlink global Internet access systems.
In a letter to the regulator Amazon.com He accused Musk, in particular, of unauthorized use of satellite radio transmitters, rocket launches that were not coordinated with the competent authorities, illegal construction of ground-based space infrastructure facilities and the construction of an automobile plant bypassing the current rules.
In response to the claims of a competitor, SpaceX replied that an eight-page "diatribe" Amazon.com "completely irrelevant" to the topics considered by the regulator.
In April, ArsTechnica reported that the company Amazon.com signed an agreement with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) of Lockheed Martin and Boeing corporations, involving the launch of Kuiper satellite Internet spacecraft on nine Atlas V rockets.
Ivan Potapov