# Brendan Carr

**Role:** Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

**Relevance:** Carr's March 2026 public rebuke of Amazon's opposition to SpaceX's 1 million satellite filing revealed the FCC's regulatory approach to orbital debris governance — treating it as a competitive market dispute rather than a planetary commons problem.

## Timeline

- **2026-03-11** — Publicly rebuked Amazon for opposing SpaceX's 1M satellite application, stating Amazon should focus on its own deployment delays rather than filing petitions against SpaceX. This response applied competitive market logic to orbital debris risk assessment, dismissing technical objections about Kessler Syndrome by citing Amazon's compliance failures.

## Significance

Carr's statement is the clearest regulatory signal that the FCC may approve large-scale orbital data center constellations on competitive-market grounds rather than planetary commons grounds, revealing a structural gap in US space governance frameworks.