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FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan for 1M Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts (www.pcmag.com)
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The Federal Communications Commission seems eager to let SpaceX experiment with massive data centers in space. On Wednesday, Chairman Brendan Carr tweeted, "The FCC welcomes and now seeks comment on the SpaceX application for Orbital Data Centers."

SpaceX’s application to launch up to one million satellites has been accepted by the agency, kicking off a public comment period. The announcement is surprising because the company only submitted its proposal on Friday. Usually, the FCC takes weeks or months to respond. In this case, it made a decision in days, even though SpaceX’s proposal appears preliminary and even rushed, according to space experts, some of whom question the constellation’s feasibility.

For perspective, only 14,500 satellites are currently in orbit. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk now wants to dramatically increase that number by about 70 times, raising questions about the environmental toll from the required rocket launches and the potential for space debris.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Doesn't matter what I think, this will not happen, period

Remember: this is a musk project, and musk projects always end up with massive investments, mega promises for years that it definitely definitely this time will be done next year and absolutely zero results

The few times that there are results, it's the fucking hilarious cyber truck

There will be no datacenters in space and anyone who at this point gives their money freely to Elmo deserve what they will get: absofuckinglutely nothing

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

It will happen, because such a project would increase the value of SpaceX which he will use to launch the satellites - regardless of the success of the data centers.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 16 hours ago

Are you unaware of the existence of starlink?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 17 hours ago

yup. should be noted that the successful spacex stuff is basically run by Shotwell. I wonder what she thinks about the datacenter idea