Elon Musk mentioned in a sequence of tweets on Monday that his aerospace enterprise, SpaceX, has shipped 100,000 Starlink terminals up to now, and is now serving 14 international locations with license functions pending in others.

The tweets indicate that Starlink added 10,000 subscribers in about 3 weeks. In late July, the corporate mentioned it had about 90,000 customers of its web service, CNBC reported.

Starlink is an initiative of SpaceX to create a community of tens of hundreds of satellites, identified within the area trade as a constellation, to ship high-speed web to clients anyplace on Earth.

SpaceX rolled out its Starlink beta web service on the finish of 2020 with a program that allowed some clients to attempt it for $99 a month, not together with up-front prices for delivery, taxes, set up and gear like roof mounts to carry the terminals in place.

A Starlink Equipment features a satellite tv for pc antenna dish, a stand, an influence provide, and WiFi router.

Extra just lately, SpaceX has indicated it plans to increase the service to work for in-flight web, or on transferring ships and in vans.

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell introduced in February 2020 that the corporate would possible spin off its Starlink satellite tv for pc enterprise and should have an IPO for the unit in coming years.

The initiative has been a capital-intensive one for SpaceX already. In 2018, Shotwell predicted it might value SpaceX about $10 billion or extra to construct the Starlink community.

Final week, federal filings revealed that SpaceX intends to make use of its Starship rocket as a major automobile to ship its Starlink Gen2 satellites to orbit. SpaceX has already launched 1,740 satellites as a part of Starlink, and is aiming for its Gen2 Starlink system so as to add round 30,000 web satellites.