SpaceX Files FCC Application for Million-Satellite Orbital AI Data Center

The regulatory request depends on hourly Starship launches carrying 200 tons each, a cadence the vehicle has not demonstrated.

SpaceX submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission in late January 2026 requesting authorization to deploy up to one million satellites. The filing, which surfaced in reporting this week, attaches a specific regulatory mechanism to a concept the company first outlined six months ago. It asks the commission to license a constellation of unprecedented scale without providing a verified deployment schedule or confirmed orbital shell configurations in the public record.

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