Claim · 2026-01-30 · event · Stated in source · Supported

According to the FCC, SpaceX (Space Exploration Holdings, LLC) filed an application on 30 January 2026 for authority to launch and operate up to one million satellites as the "SpaceX Orbital Data Center system".

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What it connects

SpaceX → filed application → Application for Authority to Launch and Operate the SpaceX Orbital Data Center System (ICFS File No. SAT-LOA-20260108-00016, Call Sign S00798)

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

SpaceXfiled application ↓Application for Authority to Launch and Operate the SpaceX Orbital Data Center System (ICFS File No. SAT-LOA-20260108-00016, Call Sign S00798)

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-01-30 · event
Quantity: up to · 1,000,000 satellites (as worded: 'up to one million satellites')

Scope and limitsRecorded from the FCC's public notice; the application was not retrieved (ICFS refused). A filing is not a grant.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Space Bureau Accepts for Filing SpaceX’s Application for Orbital Data Centers (DA 26-113)

Federal Communications Commission, Space Bureau (docs.fcc.gov) · 2026-02-04

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Source excerpt

“On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application seeking authority to launch and operate a new NGSO satellite system of up to one million satellites to operate as the “SpaceX Orbital Data Center system”

Location in source PDF p. 1, paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Federal Communications Commission, Space Bureau (docs.fcc.gov)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 08cd132f31446110504f717845add2a36807d7d07207649c7b0d245ca9e5eb65). Public notice DA 26-113, released February 4, 2026, ICFS File No. SAT-LOA-20260108-00016. The application itself (ICFS) could not be retrieved; the notice's description and quotations of it are used. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 08cd132f31446110504f717845add2a36807d7d07207649c7b0d245ca9e5eb65, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Federal Communications Commission, Space Bureau (docs.fcc.gov), “Space Bureau Accepts for Filing SpaceX’s Application for Orbital Data Centers (DA 26-113)”, 2026-02-04.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (34 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 77) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A party filed an application with a regulator, dated by the filing as the regulator lists it. A filing is not an authorisation.

Date. Date of filing as the regulator lists it.

Record ID cpo-orb-spacex-fcc-filed