FCC Fines Swarm Technologies $900,000 for Launching Illegal Satellites Into Orbit
As it turn out , if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ask you not to do something , you should probably not do that affair — peculiarly when it comes to launching tounapproved satellitesinto orbit . This is the lesson presently faced by Swarm Technologies , a startup being fined $ 900,000 by the FCC for establish four unauthorized satellite into orbit in January . TheFCC saidthe unapproved launch and operation of the company ’s SpaceBEEs — teeny , diminutive observational satellites — occurred a month after the agency denied its software for deployment ....