SpaceX produces over 15,000 Starlink plates each day. It is only 70,000 dishes per week, so only five days per week. It is about 3.5 million dishes per year. The pre-launch information for Flight 8 was recently revealed. SpaceX is currently expanding and expanding its Bastrop Texas dish manufacturing facility. It is on track to reach 10 million customers before the end of the year 2025. SpaceX may increase its production of dishes by mid-year. Starlink now has more than 5 million subscribers. SpaceX’s customer base will grow from 4 million in 2024, to about 9-10 millions by 2020. SpaceX likely runs only two shifts a week. The company is adding an additional 1 million square foot and may increase the number of shifts to four. Alexandra Noe, Senior Director Starlink Production says that they produce 15,000 dishes per a day. John Federspiel, another senior director, says that 15000 standard kits are produced per day.
They also have premium kits, aircraft units, Starlink Mini, and cruise ship units. The non-standard products are 25-35% higher.
3 % more marine
5 % more business
25 – 30% more mobile, roaming and mini
SpaceX’s revenue from Starlink was $8-9 billion, with $4 billion coming from launches. The total revenue will probably increase to $30 billion and Starlink revenues of $24 billion. SpaceX Starlink could generate $60-70 billion if the production of dishes triples again and reaches 26-30 millions customers by 2026.
The expansion of this year can lead to up to 25k standard kits. Standard units do not include mobile and mini units.
Next year, after Starship takes off, I believe they’ll need to be more aggressive to add capacity per flight. This year’s expansion and next. The production will be 24-7. The production of dishes is comparable to that of flat-panel monitors.
By 2026, the expanded factory will have four shifts producing 60-80K dishes per day and 420-560K each week. 24 to 28 million dollars per year. Starships is going to require 5x that amount of production.
They could get all the 40,000 V3 Satellites in place but it would not only be 10X more satellites, but much larger satellites. It could take up to two years for satellites and dishes to reach that level.
SpaceX released a video that gives us an inside look at their Starlink production facility in Texas. They currently produce 15,000 Starlink kits every day. That’s a production rate of 5.5 millions per year. pic.twitter.com/OxVoYFuKM7
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