{"id":65591,"date":"2018-03-30T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-broadband-ambitions-get-green-light-from-fcc\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:30:13","slug":"spacexs-broadband-ambitions-get-green-light-from-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-broadband-ambitions-get-green-light-from-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Broadband Ambitions Get Green Light from FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the <strong>Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (FCC) granted <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> approval to provide broadband internet services with its planned constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites. The constellation, called Starlink, will be comprised of 4,425 satellites using the Ka- and Ku-bands to deliver global internet connectivity from approximately 1,100 km above the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX intends to begin the constellation\u2019s launch campaign in 2019, after which it will require only 800 satellites to kick off its first commercial services. The authorization does however come with a caveat: SpaceX must orbit and operate at least half of its constellation within six years. The company initially requested the FCC waive the milestone requirement, hoping the agency would allow it to launch just 1,600 satellites in the same time frame. But the FCC denied this waiver request, stating it would give SpaceX \u201can unfair advantage\u201d in the context of other planned LEO mega-constellations on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The company also has plans to launch a secondary constellation of 7,500 V-band satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), but this would require a separate license from the FCC. \u201cIn the future, these satellites will provide additional broadband capacity to the SpaceX system and further reduce latency where populations are heavily concentrated,\u201d SpaceX Vice President of Satellite Government Affairs Patricia Cooper stated in Oct. 2017.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX already orbited its first two Starlink prototypes, Tintin A and B, back in February.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FCC, the agency has approved requests by <strong>OneWeb<\/strong>, <strong>Space Norway<\/strong> and <strong>Telesat <\/strong>over the past year to provide broadband services using similar Non-Geostationary Earth Orbit (NGSO) satellite systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted SpaceX approval to provide broadband internet services with its planned constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites. The constellation, called Starlink, will be comprised of 4,425 satellites using the Ka- and Ku-bands to deliver global internet connectivity from approximately 1,100 km above the Earth\u2019s surface. SpaceX intends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65592,"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":[],"class_list":["post-65591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65591"}],"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=65591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}