SpaceX launched 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Saturday, with Falcon 9 taking off at 7:13am EST from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the ninth launch and landing of this particular Falcon 9 booster, onto the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX’s Starlink is no longer just a promising satellite internet experiment — it’s a full-blown growth engine. According to new data from Cloudflare, global web traffic flowing through Starlink more than doubled in 2025, underscoring just how quickly the service is scaling worldwide. As reported by Business Insider, Cloudflare’s data shows that Starlink traffic surged […]
As SpaceX continues to rapidly scale Starlink, its suppliers are racing to keep pace. One of them, European chipmaker STMicroelectronics, has revealed just how massive its role in the satellite internet network has become — and how much bigger it’s about to get. According to Reuters, STMicro has shipped more than 5 billion radio-frequency antenna […]
SpaceX’s Starlink constellation is continuing its rapid expansion, and the company is now on track to surpass 10,000 satellites in orbit by February 2026 — a milestone that would cement Starlink as one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever deployed in space. Looking at cumulative deployment trends over the past six years, the pace […]
