Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explodes on the Pad

Europe made its most concrete claim yet for sovereignty in orbit this week. The EU commission proposed new rules [https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-reserve-satellite-spectrum-operators/] for its spectrum allocation that would reserve at least two-thirds of available frequencies to European satellite operators, leaving foreign satcoms to compete for table scraps. The move immediately elicited a response from the US Chair of the FCC, Brendan Carr: Keep reading [https://payloadspace.com/europe-celebrates-its-sovereignty-progress-at-smallsat/]