1. SpaceX Starship Flight 10: Comeback Mission Validates V3 Starlink Deployment

    SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10 delivered a major breakthrough. On August 26, Booster 16 and Ship 37 lifted off from Starbase and executed all primary objectives: ascent, hot-stage separation, booster boost-back and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, o...
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  2. U.S. Senator Urges Musk to Block Starlink Use by Southeast-Asian Fraud Rings

    Senator Maggie Hassan asked Elon Musk to cut off Starlink terminals operating in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos that power so-called “scam compounds” targeting Americans. Her letter cites Treasury data showing billions lost to the networks a...
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  3. Starlink Restores Service After Rare 2.5-Hour Global Outage

    SpaceX’s Starlink network went dark for roughly 2 ½ hours on Thursday afternoon, cutting off tens of thousands of users worldwide. Company engineers traced the disruption to “failure of key internal software services” and rolled back the change; n...
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  4. Vietnam Greenlights Starlink Pilot Launch

    Deputy Science Minister Pham Duc Long said Vietnam will license a controlled Starlink pilot in the fourth quarter of 2025 once SpaceX completes local incorporation and ground-station approvals. The trial will open one of Southeast Asia’s largest u...
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  5. Starlink latency averages 26 ms as capacity tops 450 Tbps

    SpaceX’s latest Starlink network update shows the constellation has grown to about 7,800 satellites and more than six million active customers worldwide, delivering a median peak-hour U.S. download speed of nearly 200 Mbps and a median latency of ...
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  6. Starlink V2 Mini Each Adds 2.7 Tbps to Network

    A SpaceX post revealed that every Starlink V2 Mini batch boosts constellation capacity by roughly 2.7 terabits per second, enabling higher speeds and more users. At the current launch tempo of three to four flights per week, that equates to roughl...
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  7. Internal Post Shows Starlink Factory Output Tops 113 000 Kits per Week

    Independent X analyst (@xdnibor) flagged a now-deleted 13 June image from SpaceX’s internal tracker indicating Starlink hardware production has reached about 113 000 user-terminal kits per week—roughly 16 000 per day. At that cadence the Bastrop a...
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  8. T-Mobile Sets October Start for Starlink-Powered Data Service

    A post summarising remarks by T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert says the carrier will wind down its Direct-to-Cell beta in July and roll out a paid “T-Satellite” package on October 1. Reuters confirms the timeline and adds that 1.8 million customers have ...
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  9. Starlink Hits 6 Million Users, Expands Global Footprint

    Starlink announced it now provides high-speed broadband to over 6 million users across more than 140 countries and territories. This milestone reflects strong subscriber growth driven by terrestrial network gaps—particularly in remote, rural, and ...
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  10. Trump Walks Back Threat, Reaffirms Support for Starlink

    Donald Trump reversed course on earlier threats to cancel federal contracts for Elon Musk’s companies, publicly stating he would not cut funding to Starlink and calling it “a good service.” He added that he “wishes Elon Musk well,” softening the t...
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