{"id":151681,"date":"2022-12-02T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fcc-gives-permission-to-spacex-to-launch-up-to-7500-starlink-internet-satellites"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:24:58","slug":"fcc-gives-permission-to-spacex-to-launch-up-to-7500-starlink-internet-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fcc-gives-permission-to-spacex-to-launch-up-to-7500-starlink-internet-satellites","title":{"rendered":"FCC gives permission to SpaceX to launch up to 7,500 Starlink internet satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fcc-gives-permission-to-spacex-to-launch-up-to-7500-starlink-internet-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-partially-grants-spacex-gen2-broadband-satellite-application\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> issued a key authorization<\/a> to Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on Thursday to launch up to 7,500 next-generation satellites in its Starlink internet network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, we grant SpaceX authority to construct, deploy, and operate up to 7,500 satellites operating at altitudes of 525,530, and 535 km and inclinations of 53, 43, and 33 degrees, respectively, using frequencies in the Ku-and Ka-band. We defer consideration of SpaceX\u2019s proposed use of E-band frequencies and tracking beacons,\u201d said the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission issued a key authorization to Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on Thursday to launch up to 7,500 next-generation satellites in its Starlink internet network. \u201cSpecifically, we grant SpaceX authority to construct, deploy, and operate up to 7,500 satellites operating at altitudes of 525,530, and 535 km and inclinations of 53, 43, and 33 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151681","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}