Sept. 9, 2022

The Satellite Safety Alliance applauds NAS for its comprehensive review of the record and findings that Ligado’s plan threatens vital GPS and satellite communications services. These findings align with the concerns across the vast federal and commercial user base of GPS, satellite communications, and weather forecasting services.

This study is a reminder to our nation’s leaders and the Federal Communications Commission that Ligado’s harmful interference will disrupt day-to-day operations and cost billions of dollars to the consumers of these mission-critical services. The FCC must stay or reverse the Ligado order to address the imminent—but preventable—harm from the company’s proposed terrestrial network that it intends to deploy a test network this fall.