Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told
Instead, it asks the regulator to put the entire emerging orbital datacenter sector on hold while it assesses the cumulative effects of proposals from SpaceX, Starcloud, Blue Origin, Cowboy Space, and any similar applications that follow. According to the petition, those proposals collectively seek "well over a million datacenter satellites" in low Earth orbit. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "The FCC is currently considering multiple requests for licensing extraordinary numbers of satellite-based datacenters to be placed into low-earth orbit over the next decade," the petition states.
- ▪Instead, it asks the regulator to put the entire emerging orbital datacenter sector on hold while it assesses the cumulative effects of proposals from SpaceX, Starcloud, Blue Origin, Cowboy Space, and any similar applications that follow.
- ▪According to the petition, those proposals collectively seek "well over a million datacenter satellites" in low Earth orbit.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "The FCC is currently considering multiple requests for licensing extraordinary numbers of satellite-based datacenters to be placed into low-
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