SpaceX's Starlink hit by major outage2025-07-25 18:57 by DanielaTags: SpaceX, Starlink
Starlink experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that went on for 2.5 hours and took down tens of thousands of people's satellite internet service. By a little after 5 p.m. PT Thursday, the company said in a post on X that the underlying network issue had been resolved and Starlink service was restored. The company provided only cursory information about what happened behind the scenes. "The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network," Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls said on X. Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has changed the game in terms of internet accessibility in rural and other underserved areas lacking high-speed broadband infrastructure. It has 2 million US subscribers, and more than 6 million globally. Read more -here-
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