SpaceX investor Steve Jurvetson stated on Friday that its Starlink manufacturing line makes 4.7 million terminals yearly.
What Occurred: “The Starlink manufacturing line is the closest factor to a completely automated alien dreadnought that I’ve ever seen. It makes 4.7 million terminals per yr, and rising. One subsection is the most important printed circuit board manufacturing facility in America,” Jurvetson stated in a submit on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
Jurvetson is a enterprise capitalist who invested early in Elon Musk’s SpaceX. He’s additionally on the corporate’s Board of Administrators.
The manufacturing line Jurvetson referred to is on the firm’s Starlink terminal manufacturing facility in Bastrop, Texas.
SpaceX stated in a submit on social media platform X in September that it’s offering connectivity to over 4 million folks across the globe whereas including that the shoppers are unfold throughout over 100 nations, territories, and different markets. Starlink introduced that it’s connecting over 3 million clients merely a number of months again on Might 20, implying that the phase added 1,000,000 clients in simply 4 months.
Why It Issues: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell stated at a convention hosted by Baron Capital final month that the corporate will make “some cash” on Starlink this yr. Starlink is the satellite tv for pc web phase of SpaceX. It achieved a breakeven money movement in November 2023.
“We’re going to make some cash on Starlink this yr. However finally I believe Starship (the corporate’s new rocket below improvement) would be the factor that takes us excessive as one of the vital beneficial firms,” she stated. Nonetheless, Shotwell refused to expose extra of the non-public firm’s financials.
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