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Space licensing and spectrum: an earth station coordinated with its neighbours before it is switched on. The loop, step by step: 1. Two stations and a receiver at the licence edge. 2. The receiver measures the downlink’s footprint. 3. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 4. The measurement is signed with its position. 5. Power levels reach the compliance rack. 6. The relay forwards sealed packets untouched. 7. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 8. Levels are compared with the licence mask. 9. The edge releases confirmed results only. 10. The filing shows the system inside its mask. 11. The alert arrives with its evidence attached. 12. The regulator receives the coordination file. 13. Sensors check that the response worked. 14. The whole chain is archived for audit. 15. Everything settles back to idle.

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Two stations and a receiver at the licence edge

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Licensing and spectrum
Filings, coordination and earth-station rules, by country.

Licensing and spectrum, inside Space and satellite systems: ITU filings: advance publication, coordination, notification, NGSO–GSO sharing and EPFD, landing rights and market access, remote sensing licensing and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from ITU RR Art. 9 and Art. 11 to ITU RR Appendix 4 (data for filings), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

Plan with usArchitectureThe protocol
Technologies
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At the frontier
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Protocol functions
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Industries served
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01What it is

Launch, licensing and regulation.

The space segment end to end: orbits and constellations, spacecraft buses, communications and Earth observation payloads, inter-satellite links, tracking and command, space safety, launch, and the licensing and filings that let a system operate over a site. Everything on the ground that talks to spacecraft: gateways and teleports, user terminals, modems and software-defined radio, shared antenna networks, CCSDS protocol stacks, mission control, data processing and the spectrum coordination behind each earth station. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.

Satellite and space systems

ITU filings: advance publication, coordination, notification

The filing sequence that secures international recognition of a satellite network's frequencies and orbit.

We support.

ITU RR Art. 9 and Art. 11 · ITU RR Appendix 4 (data for filings)

Satellite and space systems

NGSO–GSO sharing and EPFD

Power-flux limits and verification that let non-geostationary systems share bands with geostationary networks.

We design and support.

ITU RR Art. 22 · Rec. ITU-R S.1503

Satellite and space systems

Landing rights and market access

National authorisations a foreign or domestic satellite service needs before it can serve users in a country.

We support.

ISED Canada satellite licensing and approved satellite framework · FCC 47 CFR Part 25

Satellite and space systems

Remote sensing licensing

National licences that govern operating imaging satellites and distributing their data.

We support.

Remote Sensing Space Systems Act (Canada) · NOAA commercial remote sensing regulations (15 CFR Part 960)

Ground segment

Earth station licensing and coordination

Licences and coordination with terrestrial users around each earth station.

We support.

ITU RR Appendix 7 · ISED Canada earth station licensing

Ground segment

Interference detection and geolocation

Finding and resolving interference using carrier ID, spectrum monitoring and standard reporting.

We operate and support.

ETSI TS 103 129 (DVB-CID) · ITU RR Art. 15 and Appendix 10 (interference reports)

Ground segment

Cross-border coordination

Coordination of earth stations and terrestrial systems near national borders.

We support.

ITU RR Art. 9 · ISED Canada–US coordination arrangements

02Architecture

Where it sits, and what it speaks.

Licensing and spectrum draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.

Orbits and constellations

8

Spacecraft buses and platforms

9

Communications payloads, NTN and direct-to-device

9

Inter-satellite and space-to-ground links

7

Earth observation payload classes

10

Tracking, telemetry and command and space safety

9

Launch, licensing and regulation

8

Frontier and research

6

Gateways and teleports

8

User terminals

9

Baseband, modems and software-defined radio

8

Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks

7

CCSDS protocol stacks

9

Mission control and flight dynamics

7

Data downlink, processing and distribution

8

Earth station spectrum coordination and interference

7

01Join Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.

02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.

03Describe What, where, how and by whom, with calibration.

04Time One clock across the grid, with its error bound.

05Observe Every value with quality and provenance.

06Qualify Tested against the specification, state on record.

07Federate Signed exchange across grids and trust domains.

08Orchestrate Software and configuration by signed plan.

09Correct A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version.

10Exchange Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces.

11Prove Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check.

12Exit and decommission An open exit path, and a record that closes.

03On the grid

Every site joins one observing grid.

The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into, filtered to the space domain this area serves. A site built here enrols into the same grid.

The observing grid

  1. Open space instruments on the observing grid.

04In the field

Where this runs, sector by sector.

Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on licensing and spectrum.

Government and public safety

Deployable communications and sensing for incident command

A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.
Development and humanitarian

School connectivity with a school observatory

Satellite or fixed wireless, school Wi-Fi, an open connectivity probe and an optional station.
Development and humanitarian

Displacement-site connectivity and sensing

Point-to-multipoint wireless, satellite backhaul, solar and water-point sensors with protection safeguards.
Scientific

Ocean and coastal low-cost buoy arrays

Satellite-backhauled wave buoys accepted in a national programme trial.
Transport

Highway corridor mobile coverage for safety

Small cells and satellite backhaul along unserved roads.
Government and public safety

National GBON surface and upper-air network

WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.

05Open and enterprise

Open by default. Enterprise by contract.

The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.

Open, on the main site

  • Orbit and pass methods
  • Payload class catalogue
  • Ground-station interfaces on the protocol

Enterprise, on this site

  • Mission and payload integration
  • Tasking and downlink services
  • Non-terrestrial backhaul for remote sites

06The rest of the line

Space and satellite systems, area by area.

Space and satellite systems

Constellations and orbits

LEO, MEO and GEO, sized to revisit and coverage.
Space and satellite systems

Spacecraft and payloads

Buses and optical, radar and RF payload classes.
Space and satellite systems

NTN and direct-to-device

3GPP non-terrestrial networks, from orbit to handset.
Space and satellite systems

Tasking and downlink

Request, schedule, receive and process: one chain.
Space and satellite systems

Space safety

Tracking, telemetry and command, conjunction awareness.

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for licensing and spectrum. The form names who receives your details.

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Filings, coordination and earth-station rules, by country.

Licensing and spectrum, inside Space and satellite systems: ITU filings: advance publication, coordination, notification, NGSO–GSO sharing and EPFD, landing rights and market access, remote sensing licensing and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from ITU RR Art. 9 and Art. 11 to ITU RR Appendix 4 (data for filings), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

01What it is

02Architecture

Where it sits, and what it speaks.

03On the grid

04In the field

Where this runs, sector by sector.

05Open and enterprise

Open by default. Enterprise by contract.

The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.

Open, on the main site
    Enterprise, on this site
      06The rest of the line

      Bring us the site.