SpaceX

SpaceX operates the Starlink satellite network alongside its launch and spacecraft businesses. Korthos tracks the communications layer where Starlink provides beyond-line-of-sight links for autonomous marine and field systems.

Facts

  • Segment: Avionics
  • Country: US
  • Founded: 2002
  • Ticker: SPCX
  • Website: https://www.spacex.com/

About

About SpaceX

SpaceX was founded in 2002 and develops launch vehicles, spacecraft and satellite infrastructure from its Texas headquarters and other operating sites. Starlink provides a low-Earth-orbit communications network that provides broadband links to fixed and mobile users, including maritime platforms. The wider company remains a diversified space operator rather than a robotics specialist.

For physical AI, persistent connectivity can carry telemetry, mission updates and sensor data when terrestrial networks are unavailable. Verified supply and integration records link Starlink terminals to autonomous platforms operated by companies such as Seasats and EarthSense. Those deployments make SpaceX an external communications-infrastructure provider to robotics fleets; they do not imply that SpaceX supplies autonomy software or controls the vehicles themselves.

Supply

  • EarthSense - Outbound - Connectivity - EarthSense offers SpaceX Starlink connectivity on TerraSentia configurations - source: earthsense.co
  • Seasats - Outbound - Connectivity - Seasats Lightfish supports a SpaceX Starlink communications terminal - source: seasats.com

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Market context

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Timeline

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Team

  • Elon Musk - Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Founder and chief executive responsible for strategy and technical direction.
  • Gwynne Shotwell - President and Chief Operating Officer - Leads company operations and commercial execution.
  • Bret Johnsen - Chief Financial Officer - Leads the public issuer financial function.

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Deployments

  • Starlink Operational Satellite Count - More than 9,600 operational satellites - 2026-03-31 - SpaceX reported more than 9,600 operational Starlink broadband and direct-to-device satellites as of 31 March 2026. - source posture: Filing Disclosed - source: content.spacex.com

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