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This NewSpace Startup Launched Satellites Without FCC Approval

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ISRO's PSLV lifts off for its first mission of 2018 on Jan. 12. Photo: ISRO.
ISRO's PSLV lifts off for its first mission of 2018 on Jan. 12. Photo: ISRO.

After the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied Swarm Technologies to launch their satellites because they are too small to track, IEEE Spectrum is finding that it looks like those satellites reached space anyway.

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