{"id":298271,"date":"2025-12-24T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/?p=298271"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:49:27","slug":"starlink-passes-9-million-active-customers-just-weeks-after-hitting-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/starlink-passes-9-million-active-customers-just-weeks-after-hitting-8-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink passes 9 million active customers just weeks after hitting 8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite internet service has continued its rapid global expansion, surpassing 9 million active customers just weeks after crossing the 8 million mark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The milestone highlights the accelerating growth of Starlink, which has now been adding over 20,000 new users per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>9 million customers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, SpaceX stated that Starlink now serves over 9 million active users across 155 countries, territories, and markets. The company reached 8 million customers in early November, meaning it added roughly 1 million subscribers in under seven weeks, or about 21,275 new users on average per day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStarlink is connecting more than 9M active customers with high-speed internet across 155 countries, territories, and many other markets,\u201d Starlink wrote in a post on its official X account. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gwynne_Shotwell\/status\/2003271448807485892?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrated the milestone<\/a> on X. &#8220;A huge thank you to all of our customers and congrats to the Starlink team for such an incredible product,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That growth rate reflects both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-reaches-incredible-milestone-starlink-program\/\">rising demand<\/a> for broadband in underserved regions and Starlink\u2019s expanding satellite constellation, which now includes more than 9,000 low-Earth-orbit satellites designed to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A huge thank you to all of our customers and congrats to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starlink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Starlink<\/a> team for such an incredible product! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IErae7RSi0\">https:\/\/t.co\/IErae7RSi0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gwynne_Shotwell\/status\/2003271448807485892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: SpaceX has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starlink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Starlink<\/a> now has over 9 million customers, up from 8M in November and 7M in August 2025.<br><br>Starlink added a record 21,275 new customers on average per day since they hit 8M, smashing their previous record of 14,250. That growth rate is a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AqqgERUkMh\">pic.twitter.com\/AqqgERUkMh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SawyerMerritt\/status\/2003269866443165887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Starlink\u2019s momentum<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Starlink\u2019s momentum has been building up. SpaceX reported 4.6 million Starlink customers in December 2024, followed by 7 million by August 2025, and 8 million customers in November. Independent data also suggests Starlink usage is rising sharply, with Cloudflare reporting that global web traffic from Starlink users more than doubled in 2025, as noted in an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spacex-starlink-customer-numbers-surge-9-million-elon-musk-ipo-2025-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insider<\/a><\/em> report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starlink\u2019s momentum is increasingly tied to SpaceX\u2019s broader financial outlook. Elon Musk has said the satellite network is \u201cby far\u201d the company\u2019s largest revenue driver, and reports suggest SpaceX may be positioning itself for an initial public offering as soon as next year, with valuations estimated as high as $1.5 trillion. Musk has also suggested in the past that Starlink could have its own IPO in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milestone highlights the accelerating growth of Starlink, which has now been adding over 20,000 new users per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21274,"featured_media":298276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4489,1,543],"tags":[9,571,469],"class_list":["post-298271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-news","category-spacex","tag-elon-musk","tag-featured","tag-spacex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Starlink passes 9 million active customers just weeks after hitting 8 million<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SpaceX\u2019s Starlink 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