{"id":153464,"date":"2022-12-23T05:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/elon-musks-starlink-has-1m-active-subscribers-globally-amid-expansion"},"modified":"2022-12-23T05:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:22:38","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-has-1m-active-subscribers-globally-amid-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/elon-musks-starlink-has-1m-active-subscribers-globally-amid-expansion","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink has 1M active subscribers globally amid expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-starlink-has-1m-active-subscribers-globally-amid-expansion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting thing is happening at SpaceX. Last year they did $2 billion in revenue and Elon had mentioned that at most they could do $3 billion\/year in revenue launching stuff for others.<\/p>\n<p>But SpaceX has now exceeded one million subscribers for Starlink which equals to about $2 billion\/year in additional revenue. So it is likely that next year that the majority of SpaceX\u2019s revenue will be coming from Starlink even though SpaceX is launching more stuff for customers than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink\u2019s revenue should also skyrocket once Starship is able to launch Starlink 2.0 satellites which will happen at some point next year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/elon-musk\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c5547220-809d-11ed-a294-4137a7483407\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/spacex\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c58a0110-809d-11ed-a294-4137a7483407\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> announced that its Starlink satellite internet service provider has over a million active subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers \u2014 thank you to all customers and members of the Starlink team who contributed to this milestone,\u2019 the official SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/twitter\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c58aeb70-809d-11ed-a294-4137a7483407\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> account wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes at the end of a year in which the service, which provides low-latency, high-speed internet at an affordable cost \u2014 often to remote areas without existing WiFi-has <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-10996073\/SpaceX-Starlink-internet-boats-costs-5-000-month-firm-cut-internet-costs.html\">expanded to yachts<\/a>, cruise ships and RVs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/elon-musks-starlink-has-1m-active-subscribers-globally-amid-expansion\">Continue reading \u201cElon Musk\u2019s Starlink has 1M active subscribers globally amid expansion\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thing is happening at SpaceX. Last year they did $2 billion in revenue and Elon had mentioned that at most they could do $3 billion\/year in revenue launching stuff for others. But SpaceX has now exceeded one million subscribers for Starlink which equals to about $2 billion\/year in additional revenue. So it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}