Elon Musk says Starlink will deliver 90 percent of all space-based internet traffic next year

X owner and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Starlink is the only high-bandwidth internet system covering the entire planet, and that it could soon be carrying 90% of all space-based internet traffic by next year.

Musk was responding to a post by an X account called Mario Nawfal, who said there are about 6,290 active Starlink satellites in the world, and that these satellites are capable of providing connectivity in areas with unreliable or non-existent coverage.