SpaceX shares big plans for global broadband

On SpaceX’s inaugural earnings call since becoming a public company, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President and COO Gwynne Shotwell talked about the company's grand ambitions for Starlink broadband service to “deliver a majority of the world’s internet.” According to its SEC filing on June 1, 2026, SpaceX already has 10.3 million Starlink broadband subscribers across 164 countries, but the company wants more. And it plans to achieve this through its new Gen3, (also known as v3) constellation of satellites. SpaceX recently filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission, seeking to deploy up to 100,000 low-Earth-orbit satellites for its v3 constellation. This would be in addition to the 9,600 broadband satellites the company already has in orbit.