{"id":260780,"date":"2026-01-31T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:46:08","slug":"amazon-seeks-fcc-extension-of-satellite-deadline-lacks-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260780\/","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":260781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5740,28174,4864,2396,29279,266,263,111,139,69,640,147,392,145,1430],"class_list":{"0":"post-260780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-amazon-com-inc","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-consumer-discretionary","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-federal-communications-commission","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-regulation","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}