On 19 August 2026, SpaceX pushed its Starlink constellation past 11,000 satellites in orbit

At 04:01 UTC on 19 August 2026, a Falcon 9 rose from California carrying 24 more Starlink satellites. About an hour later, their deployment appears to have pushed SpaceX’s broadband constellation through another threshold: more than 11,000 Starlinks circling Earth. The number needs a definition and a timestamp. Some of those spacecraft are still climbing toward operational orbit, while others are descending toward reentry. More

(Source: Space Daily - Aug 21)