SpaceX Falcon 9 averages less than 10 launches per month. Two Starship tests each put up 26 V3 STarlink in the last 6 weeks. 52 V3 is more than 9 weeks of Falcon 9 launches. Continuing to test launch at this rate. Means more than doubling rate of capacity added Starlink.
Starship Flight 14 launched on September 28, 2026. Flight 15 was yesterday.
SpaceX Starship Flights 14 and 15 deployed a total of 52 Starlink V3 satellites, each contributing ~1 Tbps.
To put that in perspective, those 52 satellites are equivalent to 520 of the previous-gen V2 satellites that fly on Falcon 9.
It would take 20 Falcon 9 launches to match the last two Starship launches.
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) November 14, 2026
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