Company: SATLW
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-014951
Chunk: 102

Company: Satellogic Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 102
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 customers and prime contractors serving those U.S. government customers. In connections with the pursuit of U.S.  customers, we anticipate modifications to some of the capture and delivery processes, particularly in support of public sector customers with discernible security and privacy requirements. As we grow our U.S. business, we expect to coordinate with the NOAA Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs agency to assure an understanding of regulations as they evolve and to proactively share any strategic changes contemplated by us that may relate to NOAA’s purview. 

The FAA

We entered into a Rideshare Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX in early 2021 and the SpaceX Agreement in April 2022. By entering into launch agreements with a U.S.-based launch provider, we are directly and indirectly subject to the license requirements of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (“AST”). of the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”). The FAA regulates the airspace of the U.S., through which launch vehicles must fly during launch to orbit and through which downlinks of raw data may occur if directed to a U.S.-based ground station. The AST office predominantly processes launch license requests submitted by launch vehicle operators, in our case, SpaceX, which includes information on the rideshare payloads flying on any given mission. As a result, reviews of our payloads by AST occur during, for example, the execution of Technical Assistance Agreement(s) upon SpaceX request and other associated launch reviews and licenses.

We have adopted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) and European Space Agency (“ESA”) standards regarding orbital debris mitigation. Having voluntarily subscribed to the United Nations Committee on Personal Uses of Outer Space orbital debris principles and guidance, we sought out the leading technical standards guiding responsible design, management, and test of space objects to meet the defined measures. To that end, we use the NASA orbit debris standard (NASA-STD-8719.14) and the ESA Orbital Debris Mitigation Guidelines (IADC-02-01, Current Revision). 

The FCC

In the first half of 2024 we initiated an application with the Federal Communications Commission to obtain a commercial communications license. We anticipate receiving our license grant in the second half of 2025.  Aligned with our Domestication, as well as our other U.S. regulatory licenses (NOAA), we filed for this license with the FCC to include future satellite launches under FCC purview. If granted, we will file and coordinate our filings with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) with the FCC.  We also intend