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Re:FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch by kelnos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:47PM (#16880013)
Not sure that's true. A sibling comment suggests the opposite -- that the party that launches the satellite is responsible. I did a little digging, and some discussion around the text of the Outer Space Treaty appears to suggest that India is responsible for it[0].

[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/25981/might-isros-...

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Re:FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch by ecma on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:34PM (#16880363)
The first paragraph of that question says 'address the possibility that a US company may have had spacecraft launched into orbit without the appropriate approval from the US government.'

This is a discussion of another offence against a different document and assumes the first offence against FCC regulations is valid. Be careful not to conflate the two, one causes the other.

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