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Starlink Statistics 2026: 11,152 Satellites in Orbit, 12 Million Subscribers, and a Launch Pace That Stopped Growing

Starlink statistics as of October 14, 2026: SpaceX has launched 12,993 Starlink satellites, 11,152 are still in orbit and 1,841 have reentered, by our count of Jonathan McDowell’s satellite catalog. Starlink had 12.0 million subscribers on June 30, 2026, double a year earlier, and FCC data show it offering 100 Mbps service at 99.7% of US homes.

Starlink census, October 14, 2026

12,993satellites launched since May 2019
11,152still in orbit (11,142 working, per McDowell)
1,841reentered or deorbited
6 to 1launched vs reentered, last 12 months (3,073 vs 512)
12.0Msubscribers, June 30, 2026 (SpaceX 10-Q)
-2%satellites launched Jan to Sep 2026 vs 2025

How many Starlink satellites are in orbit?

11,152. We filtered Jonathan McDowell’s General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT) to every payload built on a Starlink bus and counted each satellite’s launch and reentry date. The fleet in orbit has grown from 1,791 at the end of 2021 to 9,388 at the end of 2025 and 11,152 today. Being in orbit is not the same as carrying traffic: McDowell’s own status table, updated 2026 October 13, classes 11,142 as working and 9,726 as sitting in their final operational orbit. SpaceX itself told investors in its second-quarter 10-Q that it operates “over 10,200” broadband and mobile satellites.

launched to date (dashed)in orbitreentered to date

02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,00014,000202020212022202320242025202612,993 launched11,152 in orbit1,841 reenteredMay 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (60 launched, 0 reentered this month)Jun 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Jul 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Aug 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Sep 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Oct 2019: 60 launched to date, 60 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Nov 2019: 120 launched to date, 120 in orbit, 0 reentered (60 launched, 0 reentered this month)Dec 2019: 120 launched to date, 120 in orbit, 0 reentered (0 launched, 0 reentered this month)Jan 2020: 240 launched to date, 240 in orbit, 0 reentered (120 launched, 0 reentered this month)Feb 2020: 300 launched to date, 298 in orbit, 2 reentered (60 launched, 2 reentered this month)Mar 2020: 360 launched to date, 358 in orbit, 2 reentered (60 launched, 0 reentered this month)Apr 2020: 420 launched to date, 417 in orbit, 3 reentered (60 launched, 1 reentered this month)May 2020: 420 launched to date, 415 in orbit, 5 reentered (0 launched, 2 reentered this month)Jun 2020: 538 launched to date, 533 in orbit, 5 reentered (118 launched, 0 reentered this month)Jul 2020: 538 launched to date, 532 in orbit, 6 reentered (0 launched, 1 reentered this month)Aug 2020: 653 launched to date, 640 in orbit, 13 reentered (115 launched, 7 reentered this month)Sep 2020: 713 launched to date, 672 in orbit, 41 reentered (60 launched, 28 reentered this month)Oct 2020: 893 launched to date, 839 in orbit, 54 reentered (180 launched, 13 reentered this month)Nov 2020: 953 launched to date, 895 in orbit, 58 reentered (60 launched, 4 reentered this month)Dec 2020: 953 launched to date, 892 in orbit, 61 reentered (0 launched, 3 reentered this month)Jan 2021: 1,023 launched to date, 961 in orbit, 62 reentered (70 launched, 1 reentered this month)Feb 2021: 1,143 launched to date, 1,081 in orbit, 62 reentered (120 launched, 0 reentered this month)Mar 2021: 1,383 launched to date, 1,317 in orbit, 66 reentered (240 launched, 4 reentered this month)Apr 2021: 1,503 launched to date, 1,433 in orbit, 70 reentered (120 launched, 4 reentered this month)May 2021: 1,735 launched to date, 1,663 in orbit, 72 reentered (232 launched, 2 reentered this month)Jun 2021: 1,738 launched to date, 1,660 in orbit, 78 reentered (3 launched, 6 reentered this month)Jul 2021: 1,738 launched to date, 1,651 in orbit, 87 reentered (0 launched, 9 reentered this month)Aug 2021: 1,738 launched to date, 1,639 in orbit, 99 reentered (0 launched, 12 reentered this month)Sep 2021: 1,789 launched to date, 1,678 in orbit, 111 reentered (51 launched, 12 reentered this month)Oct 2021: 1,789 launched to date, 1,666 in orbit, 123 reentered (0 launched, 12 reentered this month)Nov 2021: 1,842 launched to date, 1,709 in orbit, 133 reentered (53 launched, 10 reentered this month)Dec 2021: 1,942 launched to date, 1,791 in orbit, 151 reentered (100 launched, 18 reentered this month)Jan 2022: 2,040 launched to date, 1,868 in orbit, 172 reentered (98 launched, 21 reentered this month)Feb 2022: 2,185 launched to date, 1,969 in orbit, 216 reentered (145 launched, 44 reentered this month)Mar 2022: 2,333 launched to date, 2,110 in orbit, 223 reentered (148 launched, 7 reentered this month)Apr 2022: 2,439 launched to date, 2,194 in orbit, 245 reentered (106 launched, 22 reentered this month)May 2022: 2,651 launched to date, 2,404 in orbit, 247 reentered (212 launched, 2 reentered this month)Jun 2022: 2,704 launched to date, 2,452 in orbit, 252 reentered (53 launched, 5 reentered this month)Jul 2022: 2,955 launched to date, 2,697 in orbit, 258 reentered (251 launched, 6 reentered this month)Aug 2022: 3,206 launched to date, 2,939 in orbit, 267 reentered (251 launched, 9 reentered this month)Sep 2022: 3,397 launched to date, 3,126 in orbit, 271 reentered (191 launched, 4 reentered this month)Oct 2022: 3,556 launched to date, 3,274 in orbit, 282 reentered (159 launched, 11 reentered this month)Nov 2022: 3,556 launched to date, 3,267 in orbit, 289 reentered (0 launched, 7 reentered this month)Dec 2022: 3,664 launched to date, 3,373 in orbit, 291 reentered (108 launched, 2 reentered this month)Jan 2023: 3,820 launched to date, 3,528 in orbit, 292 reentered (156 launched, 1 reentered this month)Feb 2023: 4,000 launched to date, 3,702 in orbit, 298 reentered (180 launched, 6 reentered this month)Mar 2023: 4,215 launched to date, 3,912 in orbit, 303 reentered (215 launched, 5 reentered this month)Apr 2023: 4,282 launched to date, 3,968 in orbit, 314 reentered (67 launched, 11 reentered this month)May 2023: 4,519 launched to date, 4,198 in orbit, 321 reentered (237 launched, 7 reentered this month)Jun 2023: 4,696 launched to date, 4,365 in orbit, 331 reentered (177 launched, 10 reentered this month)Jul 2023: 4,879 launched to date, 4,540 in orbit, 339 reentered (183 launched, 8 reentered this month)Aug 2023: 5,003 launched to date, 4,661 in orbit, 342 reentered (124 launched, 3 reentered this month)Sep 2023: 5,198 launched to date, 4,844 in orbit, 354 reentered (195 launched, 12 reentered this month)Oct 2023: 5,374 launched to date, 5,011 in orbit, 363 reentered (176 launched, 9 reentered this month)Nov 2023: 5,511 launched to date, 5,141 in orbit, 370 reentered (137 launched, 7 reentered this month)Dec 2023: 5,648 launched to date, 5,268 in orbit, 380 reentered (137 launched, 10 reentered this month)Jan 2024: 5,804 launched to date, 5,417 in orbit, 387 reentered (156 launched, 7 reentered this month)Feb 2024: 5,917 launched to date, 5,527 in orbit, 390 reentered (113 launched, 3 reentered this month)Mar 2024: 6,098 launched to date, 5,699 in orbit, 399 reentered (181 launched, 9 reentered this month)Apr 2024: 6,302 launched to date, 5,895 in orbit, 407 reentered (204 launched, 8 reentered this month)May 2024: 6,526 launched to date, 6,077 in orbit, 449 reentered (224 launched, 42 reentered this month)Jun 2024: 6,696 launched to date, 6,219 in orbit, 477 reentered (170 launched, 28 reentered this month)Jul 2024: 6,803 launched to date, 6,272 in orbit, 531 reentered (107 launched, 54 reentered this month)Aug 2024: 6,978 launched to date, 6,377 in orbit, 601 reentered (175 launched, 70 reentered this month)Sep 2024: 7,060 launched to date, 6,422 in orbit, 638 reentered (82 launched, 37 reentered this month)Oct 2024: 7,211 launched to date, 6,556 in orbit, 655 reentered (151 launched, 17 reentered this month)Nov 2024: 7,477 launched to date, 6,804 in orbit, 673 reentered (266 launched, 18 reentered this month)Dec 2024: 7,630 launched to date, 6,898 in orbit, 732 reentered (153 launched, 59 reentered this month)Jan 2025: 7,809 launched to date, 6,972 in orbit, 837 reentered (179 launched, 105 reentered this month)Feb 2025: 8,027 launched to date, 7,076 in orbit, 951 reentered (218 launched, 114 reentered this month)Mar 2025: 8,170 launched to date, 7,146 in orbit, 1,024 reentered (143 launched, 73 reentered this month)Apr 2025: 8,401 launched to date, 7,295 in orbit, 1,106 reentered (231 launched, 82 reentered this month)May 2025: 8,799 launched to date, 7,643 in orbit, 1,156 reentered (398 launched, 50 reentered this month)Jun 2025: 9,108 launched to date, 7,912 in orbit, 1,196 reentered (309 launched, 40 reentered this month)Jul 2025: 9,312 launched to date, 8,085 in orbit, 1,227 reentered (204 launched, 31 reentered this month)Aug 2025: 9,548 launched to date, 8,288 in orbit, 1,260 reentered (236 launched, 33 reentered this month)Sep 2025: 9,836 launched to date, 8,535 in orbit, 1,301 reentered (288 launched, 41 reentered this month)Oct 2025: 10,173 launched to date, 8,828 in orbit, 1,345 reentered (337 launched, 44 reentered this month)Nov 2025: 10,461 launched to date, 9,085 in orbit, 1,376 reentered (288 launched, 31 reentered this month)Dec 2025: 10,799 launched to date, 9,388 in orbit, 1,411 reentered (338 launched, 35 reentered this month)Jan 2026: 11,048 launched to date, 9,608 in orbit, 1,440 reentered (249 launched, 29 reentered this month)Feb 2026: 11,340 launched to date, 9,847 in orbit, 1,493 reentered (292 launched, 53 reentered this month)Mar 2026: 11,693 launched to date, 10,152 in orbit, 1,541 reentered (353 launched, 48 reentered this month)Apr 2026: 11,924 launched to date, 10,332 in orbit, 1,592 reentered (231 launched, 51 reentered this month)May 2026: 12,136 launched to date, 10,504 in orbit, 1,632 reentered (212 launched, 40 reentered this month)Jun 2026: 12,388 launched to date, 10,719 in orbit, 1,669 reentered (252 launched, 37 reentered this month)Jul 2026: 12,598 launched to date, 10,875 in orbit, 1,723 reentered (210 launched, 54 reentered this month)Aug 2026: 12,859 launched to date, 11,093 in orbit, 1,766 reentered (261 launched, 43 reentered this month)Sep 2026: 12,966 launched to date, 11,153 in orbit, 1,813 reentered (107 launched, 47 reentered this month)Oct 2026: 12,993 launched to date, 11,152 in orbit, 1,841 reentered (27 launched, 28 reentered this month)

Monthly, May 2019 to October 14, 2026. Oct 2026 is partial. Hover for monthly values. Source: GCAT satcat, satcat100k and auxcat (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), our counts.

How fast are Starlink satellites being deorbited?

In the 12 months to October 14, 2026, 3,073 Starlink satellites were launched and 512 came down, roughly 6 launched for every one lost. The deorbit count is rising as the first generation ages: 352 satellites reentered in 2024, 679 in 2025, and 430 so far in 2026. The median satellite that reentered in 2026 had been in space 5.1 years, up from 0.8 years for those that came down in 2022, when most reentries were young satellites. From January to September, reentries in 2026 ran 29% below the same months of 2025 (402 vs 569).

launched (above the line)reentered (below the line)

10020030050Nov 2023: 137 launchedNov 2023: 7 reenteredDec 2023: 137 launchedDec 2023: 10 reenteredJan 2024: 156 launchedJan 2024: 7 reenteredJan 24Feb 2024: 113 launchedFeb 2024: 3 reenteredMar 2024: 181 launchedMar 2024: 9 reenteredApr 2024: 204 launchedApr 2024: 8 reenteredMay 2024: 224 launchedMay 2024: 42 reenteredJun 2024: 170 launchedJun 2024: 28 reenteredJul 2024: 107 launchedJul 2024: 54 reenteredJul 24Aug 2024: 175 launchedAug 2024: 70 reenteredSep 2024: 82 launchedSep 2024: 37 reenteredOct 2024: 151 launchedOct 2024: 17 reenteredNov 2024: 266 launchedNov 2024: 18 reenteredDec 2024: 153 launchedDec 2024: 59 reenteredJan 2025: 179 launchedJan 2025: 105 reenteredJan 25Feb 2025: 218 launchedFeb 2025: 114 reenteredMar 2025: 143 launchedMar 2025: 73 reenteredApr 2025: 231 launchedApr 2025: 82 reenteredMay 2025: 398 launchedMay 2025: 50 reenteredJun 2025: 309 launchedJun 2025: 40 reenteredJul 2025: 204 launchedJul 2025: 31 reenteredJul 25Aug 2025: 236 launchedAug 2025: 33 reenteredSep 2025: 288 launchedSep 2025: 41 reenteredOct 2025: 337 launchedOct 2025: 44 reenteredNov 2025: 288 launchedNov 2025: 31 reenteredDec 2025: 338 launchedDec 2025: 35 reenteredJan 2026: 249 launchedJan 2026: 29 reenteredJan 26Feb 2026: 292 launchedFeb 2026: 53 reenteredMar 2026: 353 launchedMar 2026: 48 reenteredApr 2026: 231 launchedApr 2026: 51 reenteredMay 2026: 212 launchedMay 2026: 40 reenteredJun 2026: 252 launchedJun 2026: 37 reenteredJul 2026: 210 launchedJul 2026: 54 reenteredJul 26Aug 2026: 261 launchedAug 2026: 43 reenteredSep 2026: 107 launchedSep 2026: 47 reenteredOct 2026: 27 launchedOct 2026: 28 reenteredlaunchedreentered

Satellites per month, last 36 months; Oct 2026 (lighter) runs to October 14, 2026. Reentry dates from GCAT.

Two events stand out as early losses rather than planned disposals. All but 11 of the 49 satellites launched on February 3, 2022 reentered within two months of launch, and all 20 from the July 12, 2024 launch came down within two months as well. McDowell’s tally puts 152 reentries down to in-orbit failures and 1,506 to completed end-of-life disposal.

Launch cadence: a record 2025, then a plateau

SpaceX put 3,169 Starlink satellites into orbit on 122 launches in 2025, the most in any year; its prospectus describes the same year as “approximately 3,100” satellites. In 2026 the growth stopped. From January to September, 2,167 satellites were launched on 82 launches, against 2,206 on 88 in the same months of 2025 (-1.8%). September 2026 had just 4 Starlink launches, the fewest in a month since September 2024, and the fleet grew by only 60 satellites net. Falcon rockets kept flying, but other customers took more of the slots: in August, 10 of 14 Falcon launches carried Starlink; from September 1 to October 14, 2026, 4 of 13 did. GCAT does not record why, and we have not seen a SpaceX statement explaining the mix.

2019: 120 Starlink satellites on 2 launches; 0 reentered12020192 launches2020: 833 Starlink satellites on 14 launches; 61 reentered833202014 launches2021: 989 Starlink satellites on 19 launches; 90 reentered989202119 launches2022: 1,722 Starlink satellites on 34 launches; 140 reentered1,722202234 launches2023: 1,984 Starlink satellites on 63 launches; 89 reentered1,984202363 launches2024: 1,982 Starlink satellites on 90 launches; 352 reentered1,982202490 launches2025: 3,169 Starlink satellites on 122 launches; 679 reentered3,1692025122 launches2026 (to October 14, 2026): 2,194 Starlink satellites on 83 launches; 430 reentered2,1942026*83 launches

*2026 runs to October 14, 2026. Satellites counted by launch date; launches are distinct launch designations that carried at least one Starlink satellite (including Starship flight 14 in 2026).

Year Launches Satellites launched Median per launch Reentered In orbit at year end Median age at reentry (years)
2019 2 120 60 0 120
2020 14 833 60 61 892 1.3
2021 19 989 60 90 1,791 1.0
2022 34 1,722 53 140 3,373 0.8
2023 63 1,984 23 89 5,268 2.5
2024 90 1,982 23 352 6,898 3.1
2025 122 3,169 27 679 9,388 4.0
2026* 83 2,194 25 430 11,152 5.1

The next step is bigger satellites, not more launches. On September 28, 2026, Starship flight 14 placed 26 Starlink V3 satellites in orbit, the first of the generation SpaceX’s prospectus says is designed for one terabit per second of downlink each. A Falcon 9 in 2026 carried 21 to 29 of the smaller V2 Mini satellites per launch.

Orbital shells

McDowell groups the constellation by satellite version and orbital shell. The 53 and 43 degree shells carry most of the network; the 70 and 97 degree shells cover high latitudes, including the polar launches that Starlink said in 2025 would more than double capacity for Alaskan customers. His counts, licensed CC BY, as of 2026 October 13:

Shell or group (McDowell) Launched Down In orbit Working In operational orbit Working share of launched
Starlink Prototype Launch 0 (Tintin) 2 2 0 0 0 0%
Starlink Prototype Launch 1 (V0.9) 60 60 0 0 0 0%
Starlink Group 1 Early Launches 2-8 (V1.0 L1-7) 420 302 118 114 0 27%
Starlink Group 1 Visorsat Launches 9-17 (V1.0 L8-16) 533 431 102 100 53 19%
Starlink Group 1 Visorsat Launches 19+ (V1.0 L17+) 712 349 363 363 301 51%
Starlink Group 2 V1.5 Launches 408 57 351 348 192 85%
Starlink Group 3 Launch 18/31 (TSP-1/2) 13 12 1 1 0 8%
Starlink Group 3 V1.5 Launches 230 36 194 194 6 84%
Starlink Group 4 V1.5 Launches 1,637 271 1,366 1,364 1,225 83%
Starlink Group 5 V1.5 Launches 43 deg (Gen2) 699 52 647 646 641 92%
Starlink V2 Mini Shell 1, 53 deg (Group 7 to 11) 989 57 932 931 914 94%
Starlink V2 Mini Shell 2, 43 deg (Group 6,12,13) 1,736 148 1,588 1,588 1,533 91%
Starlink V2 Mini DTC Shell 1, 53 deg 337 27 310 310 309 92%
Starlink V2 Mini DTC Shell 2, 43 deg 337 10 327 327 327 97%
Starlink V2 Mini Shell 3, 70 deg (Group NRO/15) 42 0 42 42 0 100%
Starlink V2 Mini/Opt Shell 1, 53 deg (Group 10,11) 1,914 9 1,905 1,905 1,824 100%
Starlink V2 Mini/Opt Shell 2, 43 deg (Group 6,12) 1,065 14 1,051 1,051 1,048 99%
Starlink V2 Mini/Opt Shell 3, 70 deg (Group 15) 505 1 504 504 133 100%
Starlink V2 Mini/Opt Shell 4, 97 deg (Group 13,17) 1,330 1 1,329 1,328 1,220 100%
Starlink V2 Dodger Dog (did not reach orbit) 2 2 0 0 0 0%
Starlink V3 (did not reach orbit) 20 20 0 0 0 0%
Starlink V3 26 0 26 26 0 100%
Total 13,015 1,859 11,156 11,142 9,726 86%

Source: Jonathan McDowell, planet4589.org Starlink statistics. His totals include the 2018 Tintin prototypes and the satellites marked as not reaching orbit, which our GCAT counts exclude.

By satellite generation, from our GCAT counts: the first-generation bus is now being retired, while almost every V2 Mini launched is still up.

Generation (GCAT bus) First launch Launched In orbit Reentered Median age at reentry (years) Inclinations in use (deg)
V0.9, V1.0 and V1.5 May 24, 2019 4,712 3,139 1,573 3.9 43, 53, 70, 98
V2 Mini February 27, 2023 2,767 2,561 206 1.4 43, 53, 70
V2 Mini direct to cell January 3, 2024 674 637 37 0.9 43, 53
V2 Mini Optimized November 25, 2024 4,814 4,789 25 0.7 43, 53, 70, 97, 98
V3 (Starship) September 28, 2026 26 26 0 30

Starlink subscribers: milestones from SpaceX’s own statements

Since its June 2026 listing, SpaceX reports Starlink subscribers to the SEC. Its prospectus and first 10-Q give a clean series: 2.3 million at the end of 2023, 4.4 million at the end of 2024, 8.9 million at the end of 2025 and 12.0 million on June 30, 2026, 2.0 times the 6.0 million a year earlier. The subscriber count leaves out managed enterprise and government contracts, which is why Starlink’s own “more than 9M active customers” post on December 22, 2025 sits above the SEC year-end figure of 8.9 million.

SEC-reported subscribers (period end)Starlink milestone post on X (“more than”)

0M2M4M6M8M10M12M14M202420252026December 31, 2023: 2.3 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)2.3MDecember 31, 2024: 4.4 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)4.4MMarch 31, 2025: 5.0 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)5.0MJune 30, 2025: 6.0 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)6.0MDecember 31, 2025: 8.9 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)8.9MMarch 31, 2026: 10.3 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)10.3MJune 30, 2026: 12.0 million Starlink subscribers (SEC filing)12.0MSeptember 26, 2024: Starlink post, more than 4M customersNovember 5, 2025: Starlink post, more than 8M customersDecember 23, 2025: Starlink post, more than 9M customersJune 4, 2026: Starlink post, more than 12M customers

Growth came with lower prices per line. Average revenue per subscriber fell from $99 a month in 2023 to $91 in 2024, $81 in 2025 and $66 in the second quarter of 2026, which SpaceX attributes to international expansion and cheaper service plans.

US availability: what the FCC map says

99.7%

of 162.4 million US residential units where Space Exploration Technologies Corp. reports Starlink service at 100/20 Mbps or faster, in the FCC’s December 31, 2025 Broadband Data Collection (published October 2026). SpaceX is the only filer in the non-geostationary satellite category.

6.2M

units (3.8%) where 100/20 Mbps is available only by satellite, because no wired or fixed wireless provider reports it. That is down from 13.1 million (8.0%) in June 2023 as terrestrial networks expand.

Starlink’s reported footprint changed in two steps. In the December 2022 filing it claimed 25/3 Mbps at 99.5% of residential units but 100/20 at only 16.1%. From June 2023 it claimed 100/20 almost everywhere, and from the June 30, 2025 filing it added 250/25 Mbps at the same 99.7% of units. Geostationary providers EchoStar (Hughes) and Viasat report similar location counts (116.1 million and 114.7 million) but no 100/20 service anywhere. These are provider claims, not measured service: the FCC’s challenge process lets users dispute a location where the provider can connect service but not within 10 business days of a request.

FCC filing (as of) Locations SpaceX reports (residential) Units: 25/3 Units: 100/20 Units: 250/25 Units where 100/20 is satellite-only
June 30, 2022 110,134,484
December 31, 2022 113,914,685 99.5% 16.1% 0.0% 1.84M (1.1%)
June 30, 2023 114,863,458 99.6% 99.6% 0.0% 13.14M (8.0%)
December 31, 2023 115,298,577 99.7% 99.7% 0.0% 11.46M (7.0%)
June 30, 2024 115,233,759 99.7% 99.7% 0.0% 9.92M (6.1%)
December 31, 2024 115,522,544 99.8% 99.8% 0.0% 9.01M (5.5%)
June 30, 2025 116,039,162 99.7% 99.7% 99.7% 8.08M (4.9%)
December 31, 2025 116,091,843 99.7% 99.7% 99.7% 6.25M (3.8%)

Share of residential units with Starlink (NGSO satellite) service at each speed tier. The June 2022 filing has no national summary by technology. Satellite-only = “any technology” minus “any terrestrial” coverage at 100/20 Mbps.

The states where satellite is most often the only 100/20 Mbps option, December 2025 data (50 states and DC). Starlink’s lowest reported coverage is in Maryland (95.2%) and Pennsylvania (95.6%).

State Residential units Starlink 100/20 coverage Any terrestrial 100/20 Satellite-only 100/20 units
Alaska 383,830 100.0% 81.3% 71,885 (18.7%)
West Virginia 996,362 99.7% 83.7% 161,625 (16.2%)
Montana 616,912 100.0% 87.1% 79,494 (12.9%)
Alabama 2,683,418 100.0% 90.8% 246,525 (9.2%)
Arkansas 1,608,780 100.0% 90.9% 146,670 (9.1%)
Wyoming 311,347 100.0% 91.2% 27,357 (8.8%)
Louisiana 2,357,476 100.0% 91.3% 205,532 (8.7%)
Vermont 374,439 99.9% 91.9% 30,374 (8.1%)
New Mexico 1,081,272 99.7% 92.2% 83,653 (7.7%)
Kentucky 2,278,158 100.0% 92.4% 173,044 (7.6%)
Maine 816,527 100.0% 92.8% 59,063 (7.2%)
Wisconsin 3,151,537 100.0% 92.9% 225,080 (7.1%)

Major outages

July 24, 2025: global network outage, about 2.5 hours

The timeline below uses only Starlink and SpaceX posts, plus NetBlocks’ network measurement. Times are Eastern (EDT).

  1. 4:05 p.m. Starlink: “Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution.”
  2. 4:22 p.m. NetBlocks: connectivity “down to 16% of ordinary levels.”
  3. 4:30 p.m. Elon Musk: “Service will be restored shortly.” and “SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
  4. 6:23 p.m. Michael Nicolls, Starlink VP of engineering: service “mostly recovered.”

“Starlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours. The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network.”

Cause: software in the core network, per Starlink. Duration: about 2.5 hours, per Starlink. No fuller public root-cause report was found.

September 15, 2025: brief worldwide disruption

The Register reported a short global disruption and that SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment. We found no SpaceX statement giving a cause or duration, so we do not list one.

SpaceX’s prospectus names the risk plainly: “an interruption or failure affecting our critical infrastructure could result in outages of service to our Starlink Subscribers.” The July 2025 event fits the pattern in our AWS outage history, where most major cloud outages trace to software rather than hardware. The cause SpaceX gave was shared core-network software, not satellites or ground hardware.

What this means for MSPs

Starlink is close to universally orderable as a backup link. The FCC data put Starlink 100/20 service at 99.7% of US residential units, and the business-location count SpaceX files is identical to the residential one. For an SMB on cable or fiber, a Starlink terminal shares no last-mile path with the primary circuit, which is the property a failover link needs.

For 6.2 million US units it is the primary link, not the backup. Where satellite is the only 100/20 option (18.7% of units in Alaska), a second path has to be cellular or a slower terrestrial service, and the design should assume Starlink is the circuit that fails. Our internet access statistics show which states still have the most households offline.

Plan for correlated, global failure. The July 24, 2025 outage took down the service worldwide at the same moment. About 150 minutes is 3.4 times the 43.8 minutes a month that a 99.9% uptime target allows. For sites that need more than three nines, put a third path (4G or 5G) behind an SD-WAN or dual-WAN router rather than relying on Starlink alone as the only backup to a single wired circuit.

Keep the terminal powered. Starlink says its service “remained fully functional” during the 2025 Spain and Portugal blackout, but a dish and router at a client site still need power. With US customers losing an average of 7.0 hours of power a year in 2021 to 2025, per our power outage statistics, a failover link without a UPS covers only the outages that leave the lights on.

Performance is adequate for voice and VPN failover, by Starlink’s numbers. SpaceX reports a median latency of about 25 ms and a median peak-hour residential download of 225 Mbps as of March 31, 2026. Starlink’s Network Update page gives a 25.7 ms US median peak-hour latency for June 2025, with fewer than 1% of measurements above 55 ms. These are the operator’s own figures; test at the client site before promising an SLA.

Frequently asked questions

How many Starlink satellites are in orbit?

11,152 as of October 14, 2026, out of 12,993 launched, by our count of Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalog. McDowell classes 11,142 of them as working and 9,726 as in their final operational orbit; the rest are still raising orbit, drifting between planes, or being lowered for disposal.

How many Starlink satellites have failed?

McDowell’s tally lists 152 satellites that reentered after failing in orbit, 14 failed satellites still decaying, and 181 that were deorbited early. Another 1,506 completed a planned disposal at end of life. The two largest early losses were 38 of 49 satellites from the February 3, 2022 launch and all 20 from the July 12, 2024 launch.

How many Starlink satellites are launched at once?

In 2026, a Falcon 9 Starlink launch carried between 21 and 29 satellites, most often 29. The first Starship flight to put Starlink V3 satellites in orbit, on September 28, 2026, carried 26.

How many subscribers does Starlink have?

12.0 million on June 30, 2026, up from 6.0 million a year earlier, according to SpaceX’s Form 10-Q. SpaceX counts a subscriber as a self-serve service line, so managed enterprise and government contracts (aviation, maritime and similar) are excluded.

Is Starlink doing well financially?

SpaceX’s Connectivity segment, mostly Starlink, reported $11,387 million of revenue and $4,423 million of operating income in 2025, up 49.8% and 120.4%. Average revenue per subscriber fell from $99 a month in 2023 to $66 in the second quarter of 2026 as cheaper international plans grew.

Has Starlink had a global outage?

Yes. On July 24, 2025, Starlink posted that it was “currently in a network outage.” Its engineering vice president said the outage lasted about 2.5 hours and was caused by “failure of key internal software services that operate the core network.”

Download the data. starlink-satellites-gcat-2026.csv (CSV). Licensed under CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with attribution to The Uptime Report.

Methodology

Satellites. Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT (General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects), data update of October 14, 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0. We combined the satcat, satcat100k (Space Force catalog numbers above 100,000) and auxcat (objects never given a catalog number, such as satellites lost within days of launch) files and kept payloads whose bus is a Starlink design. Excluded: the two 2018 Tintin prototypes, Starship mass simulators and suborbital test deploys, Starshield and NRO payloads. “In orbit” is GCAT status O; “reentered” is status R with a reentry date. Launches are distinct launch designations carrying at least one Starlink satellite. Year-to-date comparisons use January to September for each year. Working and operational-orbit counts and the shell table are McDowell’s classifications from his Starlink statistics page (CC BY).

Cross-checks. Our in-orbit count (11,152) is within 4 of McDowell’s (11,156), and our per-launch satellite counts match his launch list for every Starlink mission. CelesTrak’s SATCAT, used only as a check, lists 11,127 Starlink payloads without a decay date; it omits uncataloged objects and objects not yet named.

Subscribers. SpaceX Form 424B4 prospectus (June 12, 2026) and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. A Starlink subscriber is a unique self-serve service line at period end; managed enterprise and government contracts are excluded. Milestone posts on X are Starlink’s own “more than” figures and are not on the same definition.

US availability. FCC National Broadband Map, Broadband Data Collection nationwide provider summaries and national and state summaries by technology, every published filing from June 2022 to December 2025, downloaded October 2026. Shares are of residential units. Availability is provider-reported.

Outages. Statements are quoted from posts by @Starlink, @elonmusk and @michaelnicollsx and from NetBlocks, retrieved through X’s public embed service. Cause and duration are SpaceX’s own; we did not estimate either.

Limitations. GCAT reentry dates for some early losses are approximate. “In orbit” includes satellites being lowered for disposal and spares. The October 2026 figures are partial.

Not advice. This is an analysis of public data, not a recommendation to buy any connectivity service.

Cite as:The Uptime Report. "Starlink Statistics 2026: 11,152 Satellites in Orbit, 12 Million Subscribers, and a Launch Pace That Stopped Growing." October 2026. https://theuptimereport.com/starlink-statistics/

References

  1. McDowell, J. General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT), Release 1.8.8, CC BY 4.0. Accessed October 2026.
  2. McDowell, J. Starlink Launch Statistics. Accessed October 2026.
  3. CelesTrak, SATCAT. Accessed October 2026.
  4. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Prospectus (Form 424B4), June 2026. Accessed October 2026.
  5. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Accessed October 2026.
  6. Starlink, Network Update. Accessed October 2026.
  7. Starlink on X, July 24, 2025 (outage); Michael Nicolls on X, July 24, 2025; Elon Musk on X, July 24, 2025; NetBlocks on X, July 24, 2025. Accessed October 2026.
  8. Starlink on X: September 2024, November 2025, December 2025, June 2026 (customer milestones). Accessed October 2026.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map, data download. Accessed October 2026.
  10. FCC, Broadband Data Collection Availability Challenges overview. Accessed October 2026.
  11. The Register, “Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide,” September 15, 2025. Accessed October 2026.

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