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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced on social media that the number of satellites in the company’s Starlink constellation in orbit has reached 11,000.

No other satellite provider currently operates a constellation approaching this scale.

According to KeepTrack, as of July 2026, the five largest spacecraft constellations in low Earth orbit were distributed as follows:

Starlink: 10,783 satellites

OneWeb: 654 satellites

Amazon: 394 satellites

Qianfan: 238 satellites

Quovaq: 186 satellites

More than half of the 19,447 payloads currently in Earth orbit are attributed to Starlink. The constellation has about five times as many satellites as the combined total of the next 10 largest constellations.

Since May 2019, SpaceX has launched 12,444 Starlink satellites into orbit. Around 1,660 of them have already been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.

This means the number of Starlink satellites that have already been removed from orbit is itself greater than the total number of satellites launched by OneWeb, the second-largest constellation operator, to date.

SpaceX continues to expand the network, with an additional two or three Starlink missions launched into orbit every week.

Meanwhile, Starlink’s customer base has surpassed 12 million subscribers worldwide.