Elon Musk explains how Starlink works — several 1000 satellites in low Earth orbit (550 kms) and they're moving around 25 times the speed of sound in these zipping around the Earth, with laser links between satellites for resilience

🚩Why SpaceX Dominates Space • ~165–170 launches projected in 2025 • ~82% share of the commercial launch market • ~80–90% of global upmass delivered to orbit • ~10,359 operational Starlink satellites (≈66% of all active satellites worldwide) • 20–28× booster reuse (same booster flies repeatedly) • Lowest cost to orbit: $2,700–$7,000/kg (rideshare) • 82% overall launch market share (rest of world combined ≈18%) • Only company with the full vertical stack: builds, launches, deploys, and operates everything 🚩Why SpaceX Wins AI in Space • Massive launch scale with Starship: 100–200+ tonnes of reusable payload per flight • Driving launch costs toward <$100/kg target, far below what competitors can achieve • Orbital data centers: compute satellites benefit from unlimited solar power and radiative cooling in vacuum • Starlink laser mesh already deployed in orbit: provides high-bandwidth, low-latency inter-satellite networking • Low-latency, distributed AI compute delivered to Earth users from orbit • Only company building the entire orbital compute stack (rockets, satellites, terminals, and global network)