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Starlink serves 41 million travellers in a year

development2026-01-01

Claim

Starlink served 20 million cruise passengers and 21 million airline passengers in 2025, becoming a utility layer.

Reported metric: 41M passengers

Reporting date: 2026-01-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to 2026

Actor

SpaceX

Evidence for

The network beats the node

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Welcome to 2026

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Starlink serves 41 million travellers in a year
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-01
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-01-starlink-41-million-passengers
Claim: Starlink served 20 million cruise passengers and 21 million airline passengers in 2025, becoming a utility layer.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-2026
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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