Spaceport America is under fire and facing millions of dollars in fines from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC says it has to do with a pirate radio station that broadcasted from their grounds during last year’s Spaceport America Cup competition.
Their annual Spaceport America Cup is a huge event for the facility, but it’s exactly that event that has them in hot water with the FCC. “Basically, what it was, it was in reference to a customer that used what is known as low FM frequencies…The customer thought that they had the permits for it. They used the FM frequency for that matter, and it was not in the right appropriate use that they should have used it,” says Francisco Pallares, business development director for Spaceport America.
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