{"id":984627,"date":"2026-01-12T07:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984627"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:05:25","slug":"fcc-approves-spacex-plan-to-deploy-an-additional-7500-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-to-deploy-an-additional-7500-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC approves SpaceX plan to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX&#8217;s request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites as it works to boost internet service worldwide. The FCC said Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX can now operate an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, \u200cbringing the total \u200cto 15,000 satellites worldwide. The FCC is also allowing SpaceX to upgrade the satellites and operate across five frequencies and is waiving prior \u200crequirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX&#8217;s request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites as it works to boost internet service worldwide. The FCC said Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX can now operate an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, \u200cbringing the total \u200cto 15,000 satellites worldwide. The FCC is also allowing SpaceX to upgrade the satellites and operate across five frequencies and is waiving prior \u200crequirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}