{"id":17732,"date":"2020-04-28T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-seeks-regulatory-changes-as-it-gears-up-for-starlink-broadband-service\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:34:09","slug":"spacex-seeks-regulatory-changes-as-it-gears-up-for-starlink-broadband-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-seeks-regulatory-changes-as-it-gears-up-for-starlink-broadband-service\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX seeks regulatory changes as it gears up for Starlink broadband service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_561038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561038\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-561038\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200428-starlink-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Starlink launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200428-starlink-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200428-starlink-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200428-starlink.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-561038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 80 Starlink satellites into orbit on April 22. (SpaceX Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a new regulatory filing, SpaceX says it plans to start offering commercial broadband internet service using its Starlink satellite constellation in the northern U.S. and southern Canada by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since last May, SpaceX has used seven Falcon 9 rockets to launch 420 of the satellites, which are made at the company\u2019s facility in Redmond, Wash. SpaceX is also continuing to seek, and receive, approvals from the Federal Communications Commission to set up ground stations for uplinking and downlinking data.<\/li>\n<li>Last week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that \u201cprivate beta\u201d broadband service would begin in about three months, with a public beta due in roughly six months, \u201cstarting with high latitudes.\u201d This week, SpaceX\u2019s director of satellite policy, David Goldman, said in a document filed with the FCC that limited service will be offered by the end of this year, with rapid expansion to \u201cnear global coverage of the populated world in 2021.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Goldman told the FCC that the satellite licensing process should \u201clevel the playing field\u201d by having non-U.S. satellite operators pay the same filing fees that U.S. operators pay. He also urged the FCC to ease the restrictions on where gateway earth stations can be placed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 80 Starlink satellites into orbit on April 22. (SpaceX Photo) In a new regulatory filing, SpaceX says it plans to start offering commercial broadband internet service using its Starlink satellite constellation in the northern U.S. and southern Canada by the end of this year. Since last May, SpaceX has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[252,20,442,316,440],"class_list":["post-17732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-broadband","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}