Starlink Restored After Hours-Long Outage Took Down Elon Musk's Satellite Internet Service
Starlink experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that went for 2.5 hours, taking down at least tens of thousands of people's satellite internet service.
"Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved," Starlink posted on X at 1:05 p.m. PT/4:05 p.m. ET.
While Starlink has yet to confirm that services are fully up and running again, Downdetectorshowed reports of issues down to just 1,600 as of 4:30 p.m PT after they spiked to around 60,000 at about 1 p.m. PT. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service was "mostly restored."
Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has changed the game in terms of internet accessibility in rural and other under-served areas lacking high-speed broadband infrastructure.
It has 2 million US subscribers, and more than 6 million globally.
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