(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The FCC has approved a SpaceX plan to test Starlink satellite internet on the Starship rocket. The FCC issued authorization for SpaceX to conduct the experiment over the next 60 days. The approval arrives as the company is preparing a test flight for the Starship SN15 at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica Village, Texas. TankWatchers first tweeted the news. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. On April 9, the company filed an application to conduct the experiment within 5 kilometers of the site. However, the company isn’t seeking to use Starlink in space, at least not yet. Instead, it wants to test the satellite internet technology at altitudes not to exceed 12.5km, or 41,000 feet. At the same time, the experiment involves a single Starlink satellite dish. “These operations will only occur on the ground or during test flights of durations not to exceed eight minutes,” the company wrote in the application. SpaceX submitted the application as observers began noticing a mysterious white dish had been placed on the Starship SN15 vehicle. The company’s plans for Starlink on the rocket remain unknown. But it does raise the tantalizing prospect of space tourists one day watching Netflix on a trip to the Moon. Recommended by Our Editors