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Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on February 22, 2024. It took effect on February 22, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) discusses the adoption of an Order on Reconsideration (Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order), which addressed three petitions for reconsideration challenging the orbital debris mitigation rules adopted by the Commission in 2020. In the Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order, the Commission declined to modify, withdraw, or otherwise change the orbital debris mitigation rules adopted in 2020 Orbital Debris Order, published August 25, 2020, but also provided some clarification and guidance as relevant for some of the issues raised in the petitions for reconsideration.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-03506
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Denial of reconsideration
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- February 22, 2024
- Takes effect
- February 22, 2024
- Dates
- The denial of reconsideration is effective February 22, 2024.
- Docket
- IB Docket No. 18-313; FCC 24-6; FR ID 202994
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 5; 47 CFR 25; 47 CFR 97
- Pages
- 7
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