SpaceX: We’ll surpass 4 million Starlink subs this week; Texas plant to produce Starlink kits more efficiently than in SE Asia

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service will surpass 4 million subscribers this week, with its terminal-manufacturing facility in Texas having produced 1 million terminals in less than a year, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said.

In Sept. 24 testimony to the Texas House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, Shotwell said the nearly 1-million-square-foot Bastrop production site “will be the largest printed circuit board manufacturing facility in the United States. I am pretty sure we will be able to beat Southeast Asia in efficiency in producing those . . .

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