Orbital Sciences backed enabling commercial entities to better support government...

Orbital Sciences backed enabling commercial entities to better support government operations through carefully targeted changes. The FCC should make modest changes in launch of commercial vehicles from federal ranges and in on-orbit operations of re-supply vehicles for the International Space Station, Orbital said in an ex parte filing in docket 13-115 (http://bit.ly/Nag5Bo). The commission should permit operators like Orbital to obtain full FCC licenses instead of just special temporary authority, it said. The commission can do so “by granting the relevant spectrum co-primary federal/non-federal status,” Orbital said. The filing recounted a meeting this week with members of the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and Satellite Division.