Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced that its Starlink satellite internet service provider has over a million active subscribers. 

‘Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers — thank you to all customers and members of the Starlink team who contributed to this milestone,’ the official SpaceX Twitter account wrote on Monday.

The news comes at the end of a year in which the service, which provides low-latency, high-speed internet at an affordable cost – often to remote areas without existing WiFi- has expanded to yachts, cruise ships and RVs. 

The service, which relies on a constellation of 3,000 satellites and is now available in 32 countries, has been shown in tests to offer speeds of up to 200 megabits per second, which is higher than what copper cables that are typically used in more remote areas, can achieve. 

According to a report from Ookla, a company that measures internet speeds, Starlink has seen its speeds worldwide slow down as it has been more widely used. 

In every country Ookla tracks, including Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and New Zealand, its median download speeds have dropped year-over-year from the second quarter of 2021 up until September of this year. The drops ranged from 9% to 54%, depending on the country.

Meanwhile, the company plans to begin launching its second-generation Starlink satellites in the coming weeks to add…