Elon Musk's SpaceX company disclosed in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday that its Starlink satellite Internet service now has "more than 10000 users in the United States and outside the United States."

SpaceX launched a public Beta version of Starlink last October, which costs $99 a month, while users pay $499 for Starlink Kit equipment, including terminal receivers, tripods and Wifi routers.

Starlink is currently serving some customers in the northern United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Starlink is a satellite Internet project of SpaceX. From 2019 to 2024, SpaceX plans to use five years to put thousands of satellites needed for networking into low-Earth orbit to form a "star chain" network to provide high-speed Internet services. Two years ago, FCC approved SpaceX to launch 11943 satellites, and the company aims to deploy 4425 satellites in orbit by 2024.

The Starlink user data was presented in a petition submitted to FCC, and SpaceX requested that Starlink be designated as a "qualified Telecom operator (ETC)".