{"id":32221,"date":"2016-11-27T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/spacex-wants-to-surround-earth-with-an-internet-service-thats-200-times-faster"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:01:22","slug":"spacex-wants-to-surround-earth-with-an-internet-service-thats-200-times-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/spacex-wants-to-surround-earth-with-an-internet-service-thats-200-times-faster","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Wants to Surround Earth With an Internet Service That\u2019s 200 Times Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-wants-to-surround-earth-with-an-internet-service-thats-200-times-faster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/spacex-carbon-fiber-fuel-tank-ocean-ship-test-2016-11\">Mars-hungry<\/a> tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage.<\/p>\n<p>On November 15, the company filed <a href=\"http:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ws.exe\/prod\/ib\/forms\/reports\/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC\/File+Number\/%3D\/SATLOA2016111500118&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC\/File+Number\">a lengthy application<\/a> with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/spacex\/comments\/5d9724\/spacex_has_filed_for_their_massive_constellation\/\">r\/SpaceX community on Reddit<\/a>.) That is a hell of a lot of satellites.<\/p>\n<p>According to a database compiled by the Union of Concerned Scientists, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/nuclear-weapons\/space-weapons\/satellite-database\">1,419 active satellites currently orbiting Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/spacex-wants-to-cover-the-globe-with-an-internet-service-200-times-faster-than-average\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/spacex-wants-to-cover-the-globe-...an-average<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage. On November 15, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r\/SpaceX community on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32221","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\/32221","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65699,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions\/65699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}