GE: Space Launches Need Pre-Launch MBAN Coordination

The FCC should require that before space launches, the space launch frequency coordinator work with the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), the FCC-designated coordinator for medical body area networks (MBAN), said GE HealthCare Technologies. In a docket 13-115 filing posted Wednesday recapping a meeting with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's office, GE reiterated its argument that the MBAN rules aren't intended to protect commercial space launch operations in the 2360-2395 MHz band (see 2503240039). GE said EWA coordination would determine whether the proposed launch operations in the 2360-2395 MHz band would occur within 200 miles of a registered MBAN deployment and let the MBAN and space launch operations coexist through such steps as isolating spectrum use or lowering the transmit power of the space launch operations.