CANNES, France — Satellite fleet and ground-network operators say the types of radio frequency interference they encounter are as broad and varied as the applications for satellite telecommunications. Almost all of it is unintentional, much of it is hard to locate and some of it is apparently impossible to resolve.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.