- SpaceX plans to launch Starship early Monday from Starbase, Texas, with a 75-minute window starting at 8:15 a.m. ET.
- The 14th test flight aims to send Starship around Earth for the first time, a step toward scaling Starlink and future NASA lunar missions.
- SpaceX operates about 11,000 active satellites, compared with roughly 650 for competitor Eutelsat OneWeb.
- SpaceX went public in June in the largest IPO on record and is now valued at about $2 trillion.
- The company plans to use Starship to launch AI compute satellites in 2027, according to COO Gwynne Shotwell.
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“It's not out of the question that at some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet, at least in countries where we're allowed to operate, which is the vast majority of countries.”
“supercompute in space”