Tag: Swarm Technologies
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FCC fines start-up of former Google, Apple engineers for unauthorized satellite launch
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Swarm Technologies, a California-based start-up founded by former Google and Apple engineers in 2016, for unauthorized satellite launch. Swarm will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and threatened “critical commercial and government satellite operations”. The former…