Starlink, the satellite internet division of billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, has more than 2,50,000 users across 25 countries. Starlink satellite internet 

“Over 250K Starlink user terminals,” Elon Musk said in a tweet on Tuesday.

Over 250k Starlink user terminals

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 14, 2022

Until November 2021, SpaceX had added roughly 11,000 users per month since beginning service in October 2020.

SpaceX has about 1,800 Starlink satellites in orbit.

Last year, Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference that Starlink should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months.

He said Starlink is already running in 12 countries and expanding. “We’re I think on our way to having a few hundred thousand users, possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”

Starlink shipped 100,000 terminals to customers recently. The project aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites.

SpaceX began satellite launches in November 2019 and opened its $99 per month beta program for select customers around a year later. Starlink satellite internet 

WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED BROADBAND INTERNET SYSTEM

Starlink internet works by sending information through the vacuum of space, where it travels much faster than in fiber-optic cable and can reach far more people and places.

While most satellite internet services today come from single geostationary satellites that orbit the planet at about 35,000km, Starlink is a constellation of multiple satellites that orbit the planet much closer to Earth, at about 550km, and cover the entire globe.

Because Starlink satellites are in a low orbit, the round-trip data time between the user and the satellite – also known as latency – is much lower than with satellites in geostationary orbit. This enables Starlink to deliver services like online gaming that are usually not possible on other satellite broadband systems.