{"id":273495,"date":"2026-01-31T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:48:10","slug":"amazon-seeks-fcc-extension-of-satellite-deadline-lacks-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273495\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Seeks FCC Extension of Satellite Deadline, Lacks Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AMZN:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Amazon.com Inc.<\/a> asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0244544Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Federal Communications Commission<\/a> for more time to meet a regulatory deadline to have more than 1,600 internet satellites in orbit by mid-2026, citing a shortage of rockets to launch them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Amazon Leo, previously known as Project Kuiper, asked the commission Friday for a 24-month extension, to July 2028, to reach the halfway point of its constellation launch or a waiver of the midpoint deadline all together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission for more time to meet a regulatory deadline to have more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1671,33114,22710,269,38397,1523,61,60,166,4269,82,247,80,115],"class_list":["post-273495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-americas","tag-consumer-discretionary","tag-culture","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-regulation","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}