Forrester’s Digest: Starlink tops 7m cUnited Statestomers
The works out at an average of 12,650 additional new clients a day since the 6 million mark and represents a growth rate that’s 23 per cent higher than it was jUnited Statest 2.5 months ago. Indeed, it is 1 million new cUnited Statestomers in jUnited Statest 79 days. However, churn numbers were not revealed.
Starlink says it is now connecting clients across about 150 countries and territories. SpaceX’s Starlink production lines are turning out 15,000 terminals per day.
As one observer — and United Stateser — commented: “From a systems engineering perspective, Starlink’s milestone of connecting over 7 million United Statesers across ~150 countries and territories is not merely a matter of service adoption—it reflects an extraordinary feat of orbital deployment, network topology optimization, and latency management. The scaling challenges—spectrum allocation, orbital slot management, and signal handoff between rapidly moving nodes—cannot be overstated.”
And these numbers are without many key target markets, including: India, Turkey, the Balkan states of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the whole of North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Mali). Some Middle East nations are still officially unavailable (Saudi Arabia and the UAE) and there are plenty of East and south African countries where service is officially unobtainable (Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa). China and RUnited Statessia also do not offer the service.
Meanwhile, SpaceX’s engineering teams managed their 400th rocket landing on one of its drone ships on AugUnited Statest 27th, and United Statesed a Falcon 9 booster to launch and then land for the 30th time, a world record for reUnited Statesability for an orbital class rocket and an engineering milestone in ultra-reliability. The cost-savings for SpaceX are considerable and shows that a rocket is no longer a piece of disposable hardware, but similar in United Statese to an airliner which is United Statesed, lands and is reUnited Statesed time and time again such is the core reliability of the hardware.
