BREAKING: SpaceX has announced that Starlink now has over 9 million customers, up from 8M in November and 7M in August 2025. I predicted that SpaceX would get to 9-10 million by the end of 2025. 9 days at 22-23K per day is another 220k-230k.
Starlink added a record 21,275 new customers on average per day since they hit 8M, smashing their previous record of 14,250. That growth rate is a whopping 49.3% higher than it was just last month! Do y’all understand how insane this growth rate is? Starlink hit 8 million just 47 days ago lol. The growth curve is wild.
SpaceX Starlink has 7 million customers. They added 1 million since June 2025. I indicated that they were on pace to about 9-10 million by the end of 2025.
Faster and faster for each one million. 47 days since last million, down from 56 days. At an average of 40 days per million and that would be 9 million more in 2026 or 18 million. At 30 days average per million in 2026. That would be 12 million more in 2026 to reach 21 million.
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.
They will get a lot of money with it.
ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile each have over 100M. Starlink has a lot of catching up to do.
This is especially impressive for a system that’s still effectively in beta. The real 1.0 Starlink system will only begin with operational Starship launching 60 V3 2 ton satellites at a time.
He’ll need fast launch capacity growth to do both this and sending data centers up at the same time.
Cash printing machine…