{"id":126568,"date":"2021-08-21T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-wants-to-give-starship-lead-role-in-revised-second-gen-starlink-plan"},"modified":"2021-08-21T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:23:04","slug":"spacex-wants-to-give-starship-lead-role-in-revised-second-gen-starlink-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-wants-to-give-starship-lead-role-in-revised-second-gen-starlink-plan","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wants to give Starship lead role in revised second-gen Starlink plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-wants-to-give-starship-lead-role-in-revised-second-gen-starlink-plan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX is proposing to use Starship to rapidly deploy its second-generation Starlink constellation, providing denser rural coverage without needing more than the 30,000 satellites it previously envisioned for the follow-on network.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is one of two revised configurations that <a href=\"https:\/\/fcc.report\/IBFS\/SAT-AMD-20210818-00105\/12943361\">SpaceX filed Aug. 18<\/a> with the Federal Communications Commission for Starlink Gen2, updating a plan submitted in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The other configuration envisages continuing to use Falcon 9 rockets for launching Starlink satellites, and also does not involve a larger constellation or require more spectrum than what SpaceX outlined last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX is proposing to use Starship to rapidly deploy its second-generation Starlink constellation, providing denser rural coverage without needing more than the 30,000 satellites it previously envisioned for the follow-on network. The proposal is one of two revised configurations that SpaceX filed Aug. 18 with the Federal Communications Commission for Starlink Gen2, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}