Aaron Burnett(@aaronburnett):This starship flight will add 10 Falcon 9s worth of bandwidth. This will double as Starship works up to full 100T payload capacity. I presume this is starship payload mass optimization and not Starlink V3 production thing. But I could be wrong.

2026.09.15 19:27

This starship flight will add 10 Falcon 9s worth of bandwidth. This will double as Starship works up to full 100T payload capacity. I presume this is starship payload mass optimization and not Starlink V3 production thing. But I could be wrong.

X Freeze@XFreeze

2026.09.15 19:04

Starship Flight 14 is about to take Starlink deployment to another level Starship will carry 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit Each V3 satellite is designed to add around 1 Tbps of downlink capacity That means: • 26 satellites • ~26 Tbps of new network capacity • Around 10× the capacity added by a single Falcon 9 launch carrying V2 Mini satellites After deployment, the satellites will unfold their antennas and solar arrays, establish RF and laser links with the Starlink network, raise their orbits, complete on-orbit checkouts.....and begin serving customers within weeks And there’s another wild part 3 of the satellites have been modified with cameras specifically to scan Starship’s heat shield after deployment and send imagery back to SpaceX So one Starship flight is not only massively expanding Starlink capacity..... The satellites themselves will also be watching Starship in space and helping SpaceX prepare it for future returns to the launch site