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Global Starlink coverage by end of 2021

“Most of Earth by end of year, all by next year, then it's about densifying coverage.”
— Elon Musk · Jan 1, 2020 · Musk reply tweet on Starlink coverage, Feb 22 2021 ↗

The Progression

Jan 1, 2020
The promise: “Most of Earth by end of year, all by next year, then it's about densifying coverage.” · Musk reply tweet on Starlink coverage, Feb 22 2021 ↗
Dec 1, 2022
Delivered · Late — 0.9 years late.
Today · Jun 12, 2026
Status: Delivered · Late · 0.9 years late. It happened — eventually.

In a reply tweet about Starlink coverage, Musk said the network would reach 'most of Earth by end of year, all by next year, then it's about densifying coverage.' Worldwide reach was the core promise of SpaceX's satellite-internet constellation. The end-of-2021 target slipped, but global coverage arrived about a year later, in December 2022 — scored as delivered late.

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