SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network has reached a major milestone, surpassing 4 million users across 100 countries. This achievement raises a key question: How soon will Elon Musk debut Starlink on public markets via an initial public offering?
“This week, by the way, we will pass 4 million customers for Starlink, which is quite exciting,” Starlink President Gwynne Shotwell told Texas legislators on Tuesday.
Congratulations SpaceX on this significant milestone of connecting 4M customers to Starlink! pic.twitter.com/gUIHIkUt2I
— Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) September 26, 2024
By Thursday, Starlink wrote on X, “Starlink is connecting more than 4M people with high-speed internet across 100+ countries, territories and many other markets.”
Starlink is connecting more than 4M people with high-speed internet across 100+ countries, territories and many other markets.
Thank you to all of our customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ → https://t.co/zR6w4t1qM9 pic.twitter.com/sk7wucihxH
— Starlink (@Starlink) September 26, 2024
X user Sawyer Merritt posted a chart showing Starlink’s parabolic customer growth since 4Q20.
Merritt said, “SpaceX has announced that @Starlink now has ~4 million customers across 110 countries, up from 3 million in May, and 2.3 million in December 2023.’
Starlink also has the largest number of satellites in orbit, with 6,371 currently operating a constellation network supplying internet worldwide.
Worldwide coverage.
“SpaceX added a record ~7,700 Starlink customers per day on average over the last 4 months. They are expanding their 1 million sqft Starlink terminal manufacturing facility in South Texas to be able to keep up with the high demand,” Merritt said.
In terms of going public, we’ve asked the question:
Followed by:
And…
Musk noted days ago:
If the rest of the year goes well, SpaceX will launch close to 90% of all mass to orbit. China will be ~6% and rest of world ~4%.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 24, 2024
In other words, SpaceX is America’s entire space program.
Views from Dragon in flight 🐉🌎
During its five day mission, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew completed 75 orbits around Earth pic.twitter.com/NzIFElzXAm
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 27, 2024
But not all are happy about Musk’s efforts to further humanity.
The Biden-Harris administration, through various federal agencies, stalled some SpaceX rocket launches and revoked Starlink’s internet award for rural America. Also, the administration of far-left progressives squandered $42.5 billion of taxpayer funds for the rural internet program, triggering a Senate investigation.
Musk is years ahead on high-speed space internet for humanity. Competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper is nowhere close to commercializing its space internet for widespread use.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 09/28/2024 – 16:55
