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On January 30, 2026 SpaceX filed a regulatory request with the Federal Communications Commission seeking authorization to launch a constellation of up to one million satellites.
Approval from the Federal Communications Commission would be only the first regulatory step before an orbital data centre system could become viable.
SpaceX requested an exemption from FCC build-out milestones that normally require deployment of half a constellation within six years and the full system within nine years of authorization.
SpaceX’s FCC filing states the proposed satellites would operate between 500 km and 2,000 km altitude and at inclinations between 30 degrees and Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) inclinations.
SpaceX’s FCC filing does not include timeline targets for deployment of the orbital data center constellation.
SpaceX’s FCC filing projects that within a few years the lowest cost to generate AI compute will be in space.
SpaceX’s FCC filing projects that launching 1 million tonnes per year of satellites could generate 100 kilowatts of compute power per tonne, which SpaceX estimates would yield 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually.
An FCC filing for Amazon Leo included information about anomalies that occurred during prototype missions.
SpaceX filed with the FCC for authority to launch a constellation of satellites described as "up to 1 million" satellites to function as orbital data centers.
SpaceX's FCC filing did not specify the cost of the proposed constellation or a launch and deployment schedule.
SpaceX is seeking approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to deploy an orbital data center satellite constellation.
SpaceX filed an application with the FCC on January 30 proposing an orbital data center constellation of up to one million satellites in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX’s FCC filing projects that launching 1 million tonnes per year of satellites at 100 kilowatts of compute power per tonne would result in about 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually.
SpaceX argued that the FCC build-out milestones are unnecessary because the company would use Ka-band spectrum without causing interference.
The satellites in SpaceX’s FCC filing are designed to harness near-continuous solar power and provide on-orbit processing capacity for AI data centres.
SpaceX filed an application with the FCC for 1,000,000 additional orbiting satellites.
SpaceX submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission on January 30, 2026 seeking authority to launch and operate up to one million satellites designed to function as an Orbital Data Center network.
Direct operating licenses for radio-frequency and satellite operations remain the sovereign jurisdiction of individual member-state administrations such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the U.K. Ofcom.
The Federal Communications Commission previously granted only 7,500 of a prior 22,488 Starlink satellite request.
SpaceX filed with the FCC to use the new fleet of satellites as orbital computing and data centers to power AI applications.