
Musk's Starlink satellite internet sees hours-long global outage
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Washington: SpaceX chief Elon Musk s Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours long global network outage Thursday, which executives at...
Washington: SpaceX chief Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software issue.
The service interruption was announced on X at about 4:00 pm eastern time (2000 GMT) on Thursday by Starlink's official handle.
Users in the United States and Europe began reporting problems with the service an hour before the Starlink announcement on Downdetector, a website that tracks issues in internet-based services.
"Service will be restored shortly," Musk posted on X, apologizing for the outage. "SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn't happen again."
The tech billionaire later reposted a statement from Starlink Vice President of Engineering Michael Nicolls, who said the disruption was due to the "failure of key internal software services that operate the core network."













