SpaceX Planning 100K More Starlink Satellites

The company is planning ‘extremely low-latency and multi-gigabit symmetrical’ speeds for consumers and enterprises

SpaceX Planning 100K More Starlink Satellites
Photo of SpaceX's Starship rocket during a test flight from Starbase, Texas by Eric Gay/AP

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2026 – SpaceX is asking federal regulators for clearance to launch another 100,000 satellites to support its Starlink broadband service.

The rocket company told the Federal Communications Commission in a late Monday application that this new batch of satellites, called Gen3, would “deliver extremely low-latency and multi-gigabit symmetrical throughput for consumers, enterprises, and government users and billions of AI-powered devices around the world.”

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