{"id":984775,"date":"2026-01-12T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984775"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:35:06","slug":"fcc-clears-7500-more-starlink-satellites-doubling-spacexs-approved-global-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/fcc-clears-7500-more-starlink-satellites-doubling-spacexs-approved-global-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC clears 7,500 more Starlink satellites, doubling SpaceX\u2019s approved global fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it had approved SpaceX\u2019s request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, significantly expanding the company\u2019s global broadband footprint. <\/p>\n<p>The approval allows Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to operate a total of 15,000 Gen2 Starlink satellites worldwide. The FCC also cleared upgrades to the satellites, operation across five frequency bands, and waived earlier limits that restricted overlapping coverage and capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it had approved SpaceX\u2019s request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, significantly expanding the company\u2019s global broadband footprint. The approval allows Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to operate a total of 15,000 Gen2 Starlink satellites worldwide. The FCC also cleared upgrades to the satellites, operation across five frequency bands, and waived earlier limits that restricted overlapping coverage and 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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984775","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=984775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}