Starlink Stats

By Version

• V1 / Gen1

  Includes V1.0 and V1.5 shells in McDowell’s Gen1 subtotal.

  3,203 in orbit3,191 working

• V2 Mini / Gen2

  McDowell’s Gen2 subtotal (V2 Mini and V2 Mini/Opt shells).

  7,890 in orbit7,887 working

• V3 / Gen3

  Starship Flight 14 (Starlink Group 31-1) on 28 September 2026 deployed 26 V3 satellites. SpaceX reported contact with all 26; they are in on-orbit checkout and orbit-raising, not yet counted as serving customers. McDowell’s 31 August census predates this launch and listed 20 earlier V3s that failed to reach orbit.

  26 in orbit0 working

Source: Jonathan McDowell, Starlink launch statistics31 August 2026 (V1/V2 totals; V3 row predates Flight 14)

Source: SpaceX, Starship Flight 1428 September 2026

Inclination Shells

Same four inclination bins as the ground-track colours. Counts are McDowell’s planes grouped to those bins; they sum to the in-orbit total above.

• 53° · ~550 km

  Main mid-latitude shells (53.0° and 53.2°).

  7,812 in orbit

• 43° · ~560 km

  Lower-inclination planes for denser coverage at temperate latitudes.

  1,496 in orbit

• 70° · ~530 km

  High-latitude shell.

  1,328 in orbit

• 97° · ~560 km

  Near-polar sun-synchronous planes.

  483 in orbit

Source: Jonathan McDowell, Starlink launch statistics31 August 2026 (inclination bins grouped to the four shells used on the map)

Ground Tracks

Subset of 12 satellites, not the full constellation. Three each from about 53°, 70°, 43°, and 97° inclination shells. Tracks are one revolution from each satellite’s published GP epoch, propagated with SGP4. Positions are not invented.

Source: CelesTrak GP (OMM JSON), individual Starlink catalogue numbersFetched 1 October 2026

Visible Trains

Times when a recent launch is still a string of lights: dark sky, satellites in sunlight, at least 20° up, three or more in the same pass.

Launch History

Upcoming

• Starlink Group 15-25

  10 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC (NET) · Vandenberg SFB, SLC-4E

  27 satellitesGo for launch

Source: The Space Devs Launch Library 2 (upcoming) and SpaceX mission page30 September 2026 (API last updated; SpaceX page same day)

Recent

• Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)

  28 Sept 2026, 12:48 UTC · Starbase, Texas

  26 Starlink V3 satellitesLaunch successful

• Starlink Group 15-27

  20 Sept 2026, 01:47 UTC · Vandenberg SFB, California

  27 satellitesLaunch successful

• Starlink Group 15-24

  6 Sept 2026, 14:26 UTC · Vandenberg SFB, California

  27 satellitesLaunch successful

• Starlink Group 15-23

  2 Sept 2026, 08:42 UTC · Vandenberg SFB, California

  27 satellitesLaunch successful

• Starlink Group 15-22

  26 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC · Vandenberg SFB, California

  27 satellitesLaunch successful

• Starlink Group 10-49

  25 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC · Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida

  29 satellitesLaunch successful

Source: The Space Devs Launch Library 2 APIFetched 1 October 2026

Revenue, Profit, and Customers

Drag the year to move through prospectus history and a naive projection to 2030.

Revenue Profit SubscribersDashed = last reported growth held still

Solid line is prospectus history. After March 2026 the dashed line holds the last reported growth rate still. That is not a SpaceX forecast. Revenue and profit after year-end 2025 are trailing twelve months: 2025 plus Q1 2026 minus Q1 2025. The connectivity unit is primarily Starlink.

Source: CNBC, reporting SpaceX IPO prospectus21 May 2026

Source: SpaceX free writing prospectus, connectivity tables31 March 2026 (Prospectus tables for 2023–2025 and the quarter ended 31 March 2026)