The test. A route through the FCC, the FAA’s launch licenses and the ITU’s coordination that has licensed a hundred thousand satellites, a tenth of what SpaceX alone has applied for, within a year of a complete application, would weaken the claim.
open Open. The FCC’s decision on a million satellites had no date.
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- Chapter 13 — A Change of Landlord
The two proposed escapes from the constraints, the Gulf and orbit, and which constraints each actually removes.
Filings that bear on it
- Federal Communications Commission, Space Bureau, Public Notice DA 26-113, “Space Bureau Accepts for Filing SpaceX’s Application for Orbital Data Centers,” released 4 February 2026
The FCC’s Space Bureau on 4 February 2026 accepted for filing SpaceX’s application of 30 January 2026 to launch and operate up to one million satellites as an orbital data center system, with comments due 6 March.
- United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space
The Outer Space Treaty makes a state that launches an object into space internationally liable for its damage, and has the state on whose registry it is carried retain jurisdiction and control over it.
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How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2030-3 (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-chapter-13-orbit-is-a-change-of-landlord-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2030-3},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}