SpaceX is not pulling any punches in its response to Amazon’s newest stalling techniques. Yesterday, SpaceX told the FCC that Amazon is purposefully trying to delay proposals for its Starlink satellite tv for pc web service. The purpose? Amazon nonetheless cannot compete with its personal satellite tv for pc resolution, Kuiper Systems, Ars Technica reports. This would not be a primary for Amazon, after all: an analogous criticism led NASA to place SpaceX’s lunar lander contract on maintain. 

“Amazon’s recent missive is unfortunately only the latest in its continuing efforts to slow down competition, while neglecting to resolve the Commission’s concerns about Amazon’s own nongeostationary orbit (“NGSO”) satellite system,” SpaceX stated in its filing to the FCC. “The Commission should see through these efforts and quickly put SpaceX’s application out for public comment where any issues can be fully vetted.”

Amazon final week urged the FCC to reject SpaceX’s proposal for Starlink, claiming that it broke the company’s guidelines by providing two separate configurations for its satellite tv for pc web. Starlink shot again, claiming that Amazon nonetheless hasn’t advised the FCC how it will keep away from interfering with different providers, or how it will observe guidelines round orbital particles. 

“But while Amazon has filed nothing with the Commission to address these conditions on its own license for nearly 400 days, it took only 4 days to object to SpaceX’s next-generation NGSO system,” SpaceX wrote. The firm famous that Amazon hasn’t had a single assembly this yr with the FCC to deal with its complaints, and it nonetheless hasn’t fleshed out particulars for its satellite tv for pc system.