SpaceX Starlink alone will generate $20 billion in revenue this year, almost doubling the estimated $11.8 billion it made in 2025. SpaceX will also have more launch revenue.
Starlink has subscriber growth going from adding 750,000 per month to 1.5 million per month. A fundamental shift in revenue mix, pricing dynamics, and the growing role of government demand.
More than 30 airlines now provide Starlink, and revenue from that segment is expected to climb 68% from last year.
About 75,000 shipping vessels are expected to add Starlink service this year, which could generate $1.9 billion.
In 2025, SpaceX Government and Military Contracts (NASA + DoD/Starshield + Military Launches) was $4.5–5.5 billion total unclassified government revenue. This includes NASA contracts: ~$1.1 billion (including HLS/Artemis milestones).
Starshield (military-grade Starlink service + constellation) lower than 2026 levels estimated at ~$2B in 2024. Growth continued into 2025 but not yet at program-of-record scale.
2026 projection is ~$7 billion total government contracts revenue.
The government revenue is roughly $1.5–2.5 billion higher in 2026. Starshield specifically is projected at about $3.2 billion in 2026.
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Hm.
Though small, there are quantum effects on any computer system.
Maybe LLM’s aren’t hallucinating.
Maybe, when an LLM cites a non-existent science paper, by a non-existent physicist, it isn’t a hallucination.
Maybe, just maybe, the physicist, and the paper he wrote, do exist on an alternate timeline.
Maybe, and I’m going out on a limb here, just maybe an AI spanning a large enough mass of electronics, and experiencing an equally greater amount of quantum effects, is also seeping into other realms.
Or, is in contact with other AI, in other timelines, on a quantum level.
Maybe not.
Almost certainly not, unless some of those alternate universes are pretty stupid.
Look, it’s just a curve fitting algorithm in a LOT of dimensions, and curve fitting algorithms interpolate where data is missing. That’s all that’s going on.
Oh, I know.
Extremely unlikely.
Sometimes, I skate out on my lake to where the ice thins, and the water begins.
Just for the butterflies.
However, I do understand that quantum effects are implicated in consciousness.
And, quantum effects are present in electronics.
Radar dishes transmit a main beam, with multiple side lobes that decrease in strength with greater degrees of angular offset from the main lobe.
Something like lesser potential timelines, not fully realized, bleeding over.
Schrodinger’s cat was always entangle with the whole universe.
So, if it’s dead when observed, then any potential alternate outcomes that deviate from the observed would become extinct, but perhaps not instantly.
A multiuniverse outcome, in which all alternate lines decay, eventually.
Whispers from stupid universes, audible to quantum systems.
I think priority of Musk is AI. SpaceX wont develop so fast and lots of profit will go to AI not Space initially. He figured AI has higher return on investment than space and more critical is not to fall behind in AI. Why spend years on developing something for space if AI will most likely make it obsolete?