SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments

Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed past night. | Image: SpaceX

SpaceX is presently up of past year's record-setting gait for Starlink outer deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit successful the archetypal fractional of 2026, according to motorboat information compiled by Jonathan McDowell's outer tracker, compared to 1,489 satellites deployed astatine the aforesaid constituent successful 2025.

2025 was already a grounds twelvemonth for SpaceX, with the institution deploying 3,180 Starlink satellites successful total. SpaceX has launched implicit 12,400 Starlink satellites since the constellation's inception, with astir 11,000 inactive functioning.

To enactment these numbers into perspective, Amazon's fledgling Leo work has lone deploye …

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