The Verge⁠56%

SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments ⁠41%

By Thomas Ricker⁠0%

7/9/2026, 4:51:31 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 18.1% saturation with 69 hits. Analysis detected 652 faulty-reasoning hits from 382 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 45.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠41% (13,120 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 59.90% of the article peer group.

SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments 
It’s currently 100 satellites ahead of 2025’s deployment record. 
Jul 9, 2026, 11:51 AM UTC 
Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed last night. 
Image: SpaceX 
Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. 
He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. 
SpaceX is currently ahead of last year’s record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. 
SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit in the first half of 2026, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell’s satellite tracker , compared to 1,489 satellites deployed at the same point in 2025. 
2025 was already a record year for SpaceX, with the company deploying 3,180 Starlink satellites in total. 
SpaceX has launched over 12,400 Starlink satellites since the constellation’s inception, with nearly 11,000 still functioning. 
To put these numbers into perspective, Amazon’s fledgling Leo service has only deployed about 400 satellites over the last 15 months , en route to a total planned constellation of 3,232 satellites. 
In other words, SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket is capable of deploying one Leo-sized space internet constellation every year. 
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382 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers2.4%attributed speech373writer words
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Selected voice

Dominic Preston

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7 attributed words78% of attributed speech89% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -18.5 ptsWriter: 18.5%Dominic Preston: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-12.6 ptsWriter: 12.6%Dominic Preston: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-9.7 ptsWriter: 9.7%Dominic Preston: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-2.9 ptsWriter: 2.9%Dominic Preston: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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