{"id":77249,"date":"2018-03-29T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T23:22:47","slug":"fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network","title":{"rendered":"FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-authorizes-spacex-provide-broadband-satellite-services\">a green light from the FCC<\/a> to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won\u2019t have too long to wait \u2014 on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years.<\/p>\n<p>The approval of SpaceX\u2019s application was not seriously in doubt after <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/14\/fcc-looks-to-approve-spacexs-satellite-internet-plan\/\">last month\u2019s memo<\/a> from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who was excited at the prospect of the first U.S.-based company being authorized to launch a constellation like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have asked my colleagues to join me in supporting this application and moving to unleash the power of satellite constellations to provide high-speed Internet to rural Americans,\u201d he wrote at the time. He really is pushing that \u201cdigital divide\u201d thing. Not that Elon Musk disagrees:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/29\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/29\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-f...d-network\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won\u2019t have too long to wait \u2014 on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years. The approval of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77249","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\/77249","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=77249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}