🚨 10,000 STARLINK SATELLITES IN ORBIT - AND NOBODY'S EVEN CLOSE
SpaceX crossed 10K satellites last week. For context: the entire world launched around 8,700 total spacecraft in all of history before Starlink started.
They're completing Starlink missions every 48 hours now. Just set a California pad turnaround record - 2 days, 10 hours between launches from the same facility.
That's industrial-scale space operations, not aerospace.
The constellation now blankets the planet with low-latency internet from pole to pole. Amazon's Project Kuiper? Still on the launchpad. OneWeb? Bankrupt and resurrected, now limping along.
China's building their own - years behind.
SpaceX isn't winning the satellite internet race. They've won it long ago. Everyone else is fighting for scraps.
Source: Spaceflight Now, Space[dot]com, LaunchHeaven on YT