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List of Starlink and Starshield Launches - Wikipedia
~10,000 Satellites currently orbiting right now, and that's just Starlink.
Check out the list of launches under "Falcon 9 Launches > Starlink Launches." It's every other day now (sometimes consecutive days) that they launch another rocket, and each payload is carrying 20 to 60 satellites.
Starlink is 2/3rds of all satellites. They add 5-6 per day, lose one per day.
If you assume each one is only starlink and they always send the max and no losses, it would take 90 years to get 1 million.