Entity

Starlink

SpaceX's satellite-internet constellation — thousands of satellites serving consumers, ships, and militaries.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • SpaceX Starship reaches orbit, deploys 26 Starlinks in shortened Flight 14

    Reported event · first reported 27 Sept 2026 to 28 Sept 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • SpaceX's Starship makes orbital debut deploying Starlinks before early ending

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving Starlink

What changed

  • Attention Starlink has 78 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Starlink yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

444 documents · 132 publishers · 31% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.309: about 69% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Starlink

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

SpaceXEarthAIElon MuskFalconTexasChinaNASAGoogleSpace Force

Starlink has 78 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Starlink to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Starlink.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/ef27f1952ea85f9f06fc170f returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name starlink.

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Events involving Starlink

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • SpaceX Starship reaches orbit, deploys 26 Starlinks in shortened Flight 14

    Reported event · first reported 27 Sept 2026 to 28 Sept 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • SpaceX Starship reaches orbit, deploys 26 Starlinks in shortened Flight 14 · corroborated · first reported 27 Sept 2026 · 3 separate publishers
    • SpaceX puts Starship into orbit for the first time, deploys 26 Starlink satellites · corroborated · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • SpaceX's Starship makes orbital debut deploying Starlinks before early ending

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Starlink

Entity.

Evidence
444 documents · 132 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 13 Mar 2026, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
31% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
14 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (4)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Starlink, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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