FCC Part 100 Adopted: What Changes for Satellite Operators
The FCC adopted Part 100 to replace Part 25. What changes for licensing, processing rounds, bonds, and license terms, and why Part 25 still applies today.
Read article →The Downlink
Space Regulatory Intelligence Blog
Regulatory analysis, industry insights, and product updates from the team behind Orbit Sentinel.
Articles
ITU Frequency Coordination and the Satellite Filing Process
The ITU coordinates satellite spectrum and orbital slots across borders. How the API, coordination, and notification process works, and the 7-year clock.
Read article →Orbit Sentinel Now Has a Public Status Page
status.viventine.com shows the live health of the Orbit Sentinel API and the services behind it, with a JSON feed for your own monitoring.
Read article →
Introducing Space Quotes
Space Quotes: short, sourced dispatches from real FCC, ITU, and FAA filings, built on Orbit Sentinel, which is free during beta.
Read article →
Orbit Sentinel Beta Is Now Self-Service
Sign up, mint an API key, and ask questions against 418,000+ extracted space regulatory filings from Claude or any MCP client. No waitlist, free during beta.
Read article →
AI Verification Engineering: Architecture for Trustworthy Regulatory AI
RAG tools hallucinate 17 to 33 percent in legal research. The architecture for trustworthy regulatory AI: grounding, validation, and confidence scoring.
Read article →
Document Extraction Pipeline Architecture: Why the Document Is the Hard Part
Regulatory document extraction fails at the document layer, not the model. How FCC, ITU, and UNOOSA format variation shapes a hybrid OCR plus LLM pipeline.
Read article →
Vector Search and Embeddings for Regulatory Filings
How vector embeddings and hybrid retrieval find regulatory filings that keyword search misses across FCC, ITU, UNOOSA, and FAA vocabularies.
Read article →
Mission Log: Running 10,000 FCC and ITU Filings Through Rented Consumer GPUs
How we ran 10,000 FCC and ITU filings through a batch LLM extraction pipeline on rented consumer GPUs: architecture, throughput, cost, and accuracy.
Read article →
What Is a Space Regulatory Intelligence Platform?
A space regulatory intelligence platform turns FCC, ITU, UNOOSA, and FAA filings into structured, linked data. What it does and why RegTech tools miss it.
Read article →
Multi-Agency Coordination: FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU
A single satellite mission can need approvals from several federal agencies and the ITU, with little coordination between them. Case studies and reform efforts.
Read article →
ITAR and Export Controls for Satellite Programs
How U.S. export controls apply to commercial satellites. ITAR vs EAR jurisdiction, deemed exports, the 2024 reform proposal, and compliance strategies.
Read article →
FCC Satellite Licensing: From Application to Authorization
Guide to FCC Part 25 satellite licensing: application process, processing rounds, milestones, bonds, filing types, market access, and Part 100.
Read article →
NOAA Remote Sensing License & Part 960 Explained
Part 960 governs every U.S. commercial Earth observation satellite. Here's how the tier system works and why CRSRA's capacity is now uncertain.
Read article →
Benchmarking LLMs for Domain-Specific Extraction
General benchmarks don't predict extraction quality. How to evaluate whether an LLM can extract structured data from regulatory filings.
Read article →
U.S. Space Regulatory Compliance: A Complete Guide
Navigate FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU requirements for commercial space missions. Four agencies, timelines, costs, and compliance steps.
Read article →
FAA Part 450: What Operators Need to Know
Part 450 replaced four legacy FAA regulations with one performance-based framework. Timelines, costs, challenges, and what operators must do now.
Read article →
How Ground Station Licensing Works: A Complete Guide
Earth station types, FCC licensing steps, frequency coordination, ESIMs, and common mistakes. A plain-language guide to ground station licensing.
Read article →
How Satellite Licensing Works: A Complete Guide
FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU filing processes, costs, timelines, and common mistakes. A plain-language guide to U.S. satellite licensing.
Read article →
The FCC 5-Year Deorbit Rule Explained
The FCC cut satellite disposal timelines from 25 years to 5. Who it applies to, how operators comply, and what happens if they don't.
Read article →
AI Hallucination in Regulatory Data: The Trust Problem
AI hallucination in regulatory data creates real compliance risk. How fabricated filings and false narratives threaten space regulatory intelligence.
Read article →
The Downlink: A Space Regulatory Intelligence Blog
Space regulatory intelligence, satellite filing analysis, and orbital economy insights from the team behind Orbit Sentinel.
Read article →Stay in the Loop
Get regulatory analysis and product updates from The Downlink - delivered to your inbox.
Regulatory analysis, industry insights, and product updates.