Starlink adds 1M customers in 7 weeks, crosses 9M users
What's the story
SpaceX's satellite internet service, Starlink, has achieved a major milestone by crossing the nine million active user mark. The company announced the news on X (formerly Twitter), revealing that it is now providing high-speed internet to over nine million customers across 155 countries and territories. This comes as a massive jump from early November when the user base was at eight million.
Expansion details
Starlink's rapid growth and global reach
The latest figures indicate that Starlink has been adding over 20,000 new customers every day. The service uses a growing constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide internet connectivity. This unique approach allows Starlink to offer broadband speeds in remote rural areas, on ships at sea, and even planes flying high above the ground.
Service benefits
Starlink's impact on underserved regions and future plans
Starlink's service has been a game-changer for users in hard-to-reach locations. It has connected schools in Nepal's mountains, enabled video calls for researchers in Antarctica, and provided backup internet to disaster zones. SpaceX is aggressively expanding coverage with new satellites launched almost weekly aboard its Falcon 9 rockets. Elon Musk has said that Starlink could eventually serve "hundreds of millions" of users with speeds comparable to terrestrial broadband.