Starlink
starlink.com | Satellite Internet | Founded: 2015 | Funding to Date: $10B
Starlink is a satellite Internet constellation created by SpaceX that provides satellite Internet access. This constellation will consist of thousands of small commercial LEO (low earth orbit) satellites working with terrestrial transceivers. SpaceX plans to sell some satellites. For military, scientific research or research purposes.
The SpaceX Satellite Development Facility in Redmond, Washington is home to Starlink’s research, development, manufacturing, and orbit management departments. By May 2018, the cost of the 10-year development, construction and deployment of the SpaceX constellation project is estimated to be at least 10 billion U.S. dollars.
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Key Investors
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Founders Fund
Rothenburg Ventures
Scott Baninser
Musket Research Associates
Elon Musk
Team
Management Team
Bret Johnsen – Chief Financial Officer
Gwynne Shotwell – President
Elon Musk – Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Board Members
Antonio Gracias JD – Valor Equity Partners
Donald Harrison –
Elon Musk –
Kimbal Musk –
Luke Nosek – Founders Fund
Randall Glein – Randall Glein
Steve Jurvetson – Draper Fisher Jurvetson Management
Latest Starlink News
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How AI and sand dunes on Mars can reveal the planet's history, one grain at a time
An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scientists uncover how winds have shaped the surface of Mars.
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Scientists hear 2 newborn black holes 'crying' through ripples in spacetime — and one had a birth unlike anything seen before
Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable properties.
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1st samples ever collected from the moon's far side could help reveal where Earth got its water
Fragments of CI chondrite meteorites, which are space rocks that are typically rich in water, have turned up in the sample collected from the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin by China's Chang'e 6 […]
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Satellites watch Category 5 Hurricane Melissa ahead of potentially record-breaking landfall in Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa could make a record-breaking landfall in Jamaica, and satellites are monitoring the situation.
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The search for life: A space science quiz
This quiz dives into the historic and scientific journey behind the search for life in the universe—testing your knowledge of the thinkers, missions, and discoveries that shaped our cosmic […]
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1st cosmic view from 4MOST looks pure sci-fi | Space photo of the day for Oct. 28, 2025
The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light.
