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So here's a crazy stat: Starship's upcoming 14th test flight next week, which will deliver 26 @Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, will increase the entire Starlink constellation capacity by 3%. It would take 10 Falcon 9 launches (277 V2 satellites) to add that same amount of capacity. Future Starship launches will eventually carry up to 60 next-gen Starlink V3 satellites, adding ~61,000 Gbps of network capacity in a single launch. That means each Starship launch will be able to deploy roughly as much Starlink capacity as 23 Falcon 9 launches combined - equivalent to about 640 V2 satellites.

United Airlines says they are hearing from consultants that book themselves onto @Starlink-equipped flights specifically so they can work to and from client sites. United’s reported Wi-Fi satisfaction scores on Starlink aircraft at more than double those of the rest of the fleet. United: “On a Starlink flight, we often see round trip time in the 20 to 40 millisecond range. For GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit) satellites [further away from Earth], you’d routinely see 2,000 milliseconds. It’s literally a hundred times faster.” A few days ago on SpaceX's Q2 earnings call, Gwynne Shotwell said that they were hearing from an airline that customers are flying shorter hop flights instead of direct, so that they could ensure that they're on a flight with Starlink, something they've never seen before in the industry.

Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab