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The social post compares the proposed test scenario to SpaceX Starship flight 4’s soft splashdown with a simulated barge catch.
SpaceX manufactures roughly 85 percent of its components in-house.
The filing appears to justify a rumored merger between SpaceX and xAI ahead of a potential initial public offering later in 2026.
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.
SpaceX’s proposed satellites would be spaced roughly 50 kilometers apart from their nearest neighbor within each orbital shell.
SpaceX frames the proposed satellite network as the world’s first large-scale Orbital Data Center network.
The proposed IPO could seek to raise in excess of $30 billion to fund the one-million-satellite fleet and could potentially value SpaceX at $1.5 trillion.
Starshield has 135 operational satellites.
Jonathan McDowell analyzed the ITU filing tray and counted 746,909 satellite applications lodged with the ITU before adding SpaceX’s application.
SpaceX’s filing cites projections that by 2027 global AI could consume as much electricity as the nation of Argentina.
Declining launch costs enabled by platforms like SpaceX Starship are making orbital solar energy increasingly economically viable for global baseload power.
SpaceX argues that moving computation to space provides an 'unlimited' solar energy source and radiative cooling that eliminates the environmental footprint and grid bottlenecks of ground-based data centers.
SpaceX performed 148,696 collision avoidance maneuvers in the six months ending November 30, 2025.
SpaceX’s filing frames the initiative as a first step toward becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization.
SpaceX’s proposed satellites would each be fitted with laser optical links.
SpaceX conducted 62 Starlink launches in the first half of 2025.
SpaceX filed with the FCC to use the new fleet of satellites as orbital computing and data centers to power AI applications.
SpaceX’s proposed satellites would operate in narrow orbital shells between 500 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers altitude.
SpaceX filed an application with the FCC for 1,000,000 additional orbiting satellites.
SpaceX is expected to begin pilot testing of on-orbit compute nodes on standard Starlink V3 hardware later this year.