SpaceX US Jurisdiction

The US has jurisdiction over the satellite company which is American. The company doing the actual launch is irrelevant.Even otherwise, just because you can find a loophole in the system doesn't make it right - these approvals exist for a good purpose - there's real danger from orbital debris, so it would make sense to be a good earth citizen and ensure that everything is kosher before you launch.

SpaceX is in the US.Also, it's where you're located, not just where you're regulated. People have gotten their pp smacked pretty hard for playing the "oh, you won't grant an FCC license? We'll just use a launch provider in India" game.

WRT the national security fears - because rockets are such a security-sensitive technology, the market is highly regulated. Multiple government departments have veto power over any foreign acquisition of companies involved in activities covered by ITAR, and if SpaceX decides not to cooperate with the US government it will likely find itself without launchpads, telemetry, surface-to-orbit communication, and a whole range of other services that NASA, the FAA, and the DoD provide.

Everything lifted into space by a US entity, including StarLink satellites, are under the jurisdiction of the FAA with stringent licensing (or permitting, depending on the payload) procedures and restrictions.SpaceX is a US entity and will be forever. SpaceX intellectual property cannot even legally be transferred to an entity not approved by the Department of Defense.

What's the point? Doesn't China, Russia, and EU have a lot of sats and what if they decide to broadcast like SpaceX? US will threaten them?

Not sure which country you're from, but it's very possible that your country is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty [0] that defines basic framework for space activities.Basically it says every country is free to conduct peaceful activities in space, at the same time is responsible for any damage that its space objects may cause. For example the US is liable if a Starlink satellite fails and its debris fall to the ground in your country.As for espionage, every country conduct e

What if it's not even the US but some private company with launch capabilities that also may or may not be US based?

All correct, although one other angle might have been the protection of US space technology. Even though SpaceX is private, I believe their technology is not exportable.

This is an ITAR issue, spacecraft and satellites fall under arms control.

They're not regulating the world's space access... they're monitoring to prevent commercial satellites from colliding with debris and other items in orbit. This is a public service.The US at large does have the power to block access to space, given that they posess the most technologically advanced military on the planet, but I doubt the FAA will be intervening militarily against your bottle rocket any time soon.