Starlink Network Update: SpaceX's official performance figures

What it is

The Network Update is a page SpaceX maintains on starlink.com with the performance figures it is prepared to put its name to. It is the primary source behind most of the numbers quoted about Starlink in 2025 and 2026, and the one to cite in a procurement file instead of a third-party speed-test article. The figures below were read on 21 September 2026; the page's own data points are dated June and July 2025.

The figures

• Speed: median peak-hour download of nearly 200 Mbps across more than 2 million active US customers as of July 2025; the lower speed tier serves 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up in most states.
• Latency: median peak-hour latency of 25.7 ms across all US customers as of June 2025, fewer than 1 % of measurements above 55 ms; the stated goal is a stable 20 ms median. Measurements come from routers reporting every 15 seconds.
• Scale: more than 6 million customers worldwide, 2.7 million added in a year, 42 new countries and territories in the same year; more than 7,800 satellites in orbit; more than 100 Starlink missions and 2,300+ satellites launched in twelve months.
• Ground segment: more than 100 gateway sites in the United States with over 1,500 antennas, built at SpaceX's Redmond factory.
• Capacity: about 450 Tbps cumulative capacity launched; more than 5 Tbps added per week with second-generation satellites, each with four times the capacity of the original design.
• Next generation: third-generation satellites, planned to start launching on Starship in the first half of 2026, with more than 1 Tbps downlink and 200 Gbps uplink each, 60 Tbps per launch. As of September 2026 the first twenty flew on Starship Flight 13 (24 July 2026) as a short-lived test batch, not as operational satellites.
• Polar orbits: more than 400 additional polar-inclination satellites planned by the end of 2025 for Alaska and high latitudes.

How to read them

Three cautions. First, the medians are US-wide and consumer-weighted; a Priority plan at a business site gets network precedence, so its experience is at least as good, but a remote site far from a gateway can sit at 40 to 80 ms. Second, "capacity launched" is a satellite-side number; what a cell can deliver depends on how many users share it, which is why Starlink has sold-out areas and congestion charges in some cities. Third, the page mixes achieved figures (June and July 2025) with plans (V3, polar); quote each with its date. Our US guide and maritime comparison show how these translate into plans and prices, and the Amazon Leo analysis uses them as the benchmark a competitor has to beat.

Who it is for

Anyone writing a business case, an RFP response or an internal memo on Starlink: it gives you dated, first-party figures for speed, latency, scale and resilience (the page also documents service continuity during the 2025 Iberian blackout and several US disasters). Resellers use it to set expectations; integrators use the gateway and capacity figures to explain why performance differs by region.

Limits

It is a vendor document: no methodology beyond the sampling description, no per-country breakdown, no figures for maritime or aviation, and it is updated irregularly. For independent orbital counts see Jonathan McDowell's statistics; for what is in orbit right now, CelesTrak.

Related

Definitions: throughput, satellite broadband, Starlink. Directories: Starlink providers, Starlink in the United States.