50 Tbps per Starship is massive. Global international bandwidth is ~2,260 Tbps total. One flight adds over 2% of all cross-border capacity. It unlocks fiber-like speeds nearly everywhere, supports millions of concurrent high-res streams or AI transfers, and creates a resilient space mesh that reduces reliance on undersea cables while enabling high-bandwidth links for lunar and deep-space missions.
What's happening at Starbase, Texas is truly incredible.
Deep in south Texas, Musk and his team have pulled in some of the most brilliant people on Earth to make space travel as normal and boring as air travel.
The energy there is just insane. It feels like a modern day Manhattan project, but built for peace not war.
The building pictured below is the actual factory where they build Starship, like a car factory for spaceships. You probably wouldn't have guessed it, since it looks like a nice office building. Most factories are cold and industrial but Starfactory feels warm, clean, with design touches that make you feel like you're in Silicon Valley.
There's something really special happening here. I envy everyone who gets to work here and live here. Most people never get a chance to devote themselves to something so meaningful, something that potentially bends the river of human history. It kind of feels like a college town, except everyone's building spaceships instead of going to class.
Starship and its heatshield are healthy as the vehicle continues to orbit Earth after a spectacular start to its mission nearly 7 hours ago. Teams are continuing to monitor systems ahead of a planned return to launch site catch at Starbase ~22.5 hours after launch