SpaceX Starlink Crashes Through New Growth Record

What is up with Starlink, anyway? The customer count, that's what -- and it may be setting SpaceX Starlink up for a long-awaited IPO. As recently as six months ago, the story with Starlink -- SpaceX's moonshot program to deliver broadband internet from space -- went something like this: After a quick start, amassing 10,000 subscribers in its first three months of operation, Starlink's growth rate seemed to plateau to a nice, steady rate of about 11,000 net additions per month.