The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) keeps public records of all satellite actions and license permissions in the central filing system for the International Bureau (IB), MyIBFS. Data analysis of these records may provide insights into patterns of satellite usage trends over time and reveal areas of missing or contradictory information. However, these records are not available in a friendly format.

Thus, we built an application to extract information from HTML data tables, individual web pages, and public notice PDFs. It also performs preliminary cleaning, consolidation, and data validation. The final tabular and .json data files will be fed to an interactive R data application for exploration and analysis.

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