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title: "Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord, due 31 December 2030 (limb 2 of 3) · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2030-3
description: "Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord: due 31 December 2030."
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# Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord

Due 31 December 2030

**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.

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 31 December 2030

**Read on:** The FCC’s docket

**Chapter:** [Chapter 13 — A Change of Landlord](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-13)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/fcc-da26-113)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/unoosa-ost)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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