SpaceX及商业航天行业希望美国联邦通信委员会废除那个负责协调火箭发射与飞机飞行测试所用无线电频谱的第三方机构，转而采用一种尚未明确规定的自我协调机制。波音、洛克希德·马丁、RTX以及通用医疗均对此表示反对；而欧盟委员会则持相反立场，决定将自身卫星频段的三分之二预留给欧洲运营商使用。
SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have objected, while the European Commission is moving the other way and reserving two-thirds of its own satellite band for European operators.
SpaceX希望美国监管机构撤销这一旨在防止火箭发射干扰其他无线电通信的机构。波音、洛克希德·马丁、RTX及通用医疗均对此表示反对。不过，SpaceX在提交给监管机构的文件中称，这一替代方案或许根本行不通。
SpaceX wants the American regulator to abolish the body that stops rocket launches interfering with everyone else’s radio frequencies. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have all objected. The justification is a plan SpaceX’s own stock market filing says may never work.
据彭博社报道，SpaceX向联邦通信委员会提交的申请旨在撤销“航空航天与飞行测试无线电协调委员会”，让各频谱使用者自行建立协调机制。SpaceX在文件中将那些反对者形容为“试图对更具竞争力的新企业行使否决权的老牌承包商”。
The petition before the Federal Communications Commission would scrap the Aerospace and Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council and leave users of the bands to devise their own system of self-coordination, as Bloomberg reported. SpaceX’s filings describe the objectors as “legacy contractors attempting to maintain a veto over more advanced competitors“.
每一次火箭发射都需要特定频谱来引导其进入轨道，目前各运营商必须提前数周预约才能避免频谱干扰。埃隆·马斯克计划每年实施1万次发射任务。这些发射究竟是为了什么？
Every launch needs spectrum to steer a rocket into orbit, and operators currently book weeks ahead to avoid interference. Elon Musk wants 10,000 launches a year. What are they all for?
据SpaceX提交的文件显示，这些发射旨在建设太空数据中心，不过相关技术尚未经过验证，能否实现商业化也尚不可知。在该文件发布三个月前，马斯克在达沃斯论坛上曾称太空人工智能项目前景广阔。目前SpaceX的估值约为2万亿美元，这一估值部分正是基于此类未来前景。反对者并不仅限于航空航天行业。
Orbital data centres, which SpaceX’s own filing warns involve unproven technologies and may not reach commercial viability. Musk called space-based artificial intelligence a no-brainer at Davos three months before that document was written. The company is valued at about $2T, partly on the promise. The objectors are not only in aerospace.
通用医疗向监管机构指出，不应为了满足太空发射运营商的便利需求而牺牲关乎生命安全的关键医疗服务的可靠性——此处所指即医院内用于监测患者状况的无线传感器。波音公司则表示，由于许多测试内容不便对外公开，自我协调机制根本无法实施。一个无线麦克风行业协会也担忧此举会影响体育赛事的现场直播。欧洲正朝着完全相反的方向发展。
GE Healthcare told the commission it “should not elevate space launch operator convenience over the reliability of critical safety-of-life operations“, by which it means the wireless sensors that monitor patients in hospital. Boeing said self-coordination cannot work when much of what it tests cannot be described in public. A wireless microphone trade group warned about live sport. Europe is moving in the other direction entirely. The Commission plans to ringfence two-thirds of the EU’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band for European operators, leaving Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper to bid for the remaining third. That is the band the IRIS2 consortium of SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat would use, and the current licences expire in May 2027.
欧盟委员会计划将2 GHz移动卫星频段中三分之二的频谱划给欧洲运营商使用，仅留下三分之一供星链和亚马逊的Kuiper项目竞标。该频段正是SES、欧洲通信卫星公司和西班牙卫星通信公司组成的IRIS2联盟计划使用的频段，目前的相关许可证将于2027年5月到期。
One regulator is being asked to remove the referee. The other is reserving the pitch.
一家监管机构被要求退出监管角色；另一家则仍在保留其监管权限。
SpaceX and three other American firms skipped Macron’s space summit in September after pressure from the White House.
在白宫施压下，SpaceX及其他三家美国企业缺席了今年9月马克龙主持的太空峰会。引发这场争议的《欧盟太空法》规定，任何为欧洲用户提供服务的运营商都必须事先获得许可，并在欧洲指定代表。规模问题正是双方争论的焦点。
The EU Space Act at the centre of that row would make any operator serving European users seek prior authorisation and appoint a representative here. Scale is the argument on both sides. SpaceX is building a $100B spaceport in Louisiana designed for thousands of launches a year.
SpaceX正在路易斯安那州建设一座耗资1000亿美元的太空港，预计每年可执行数千次发射任务；而阿丽亚娜6号火箭每年的发射次数仅为9至10次。
Ariane 6 manages nine or ten.