SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
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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.
Starlink appears to have largely recovered from a widespread outage on Thursday afternoon that affected its services across the United States and other parts of the world. Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker Down Detector earlier in the afternoon, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts.
A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.
Elon Musk-run SpaceX's Starlink satellite-powered internet services faced an outage on a global scale, but the company has fixed it.
SpaceX's Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk's powerful satellite internet system.
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PCMag on MSNSpaceX's Starlink Hit by Major Outage
Complaints spiked on Downdetector.com around noon PT on Thursday. The satellite service now says it's 'mostly recovered,' though some people are still not connected.
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CNET on MSNHow Is T-Mobile's Starlink-Based Satellite Service Different From the Rest? I Tried It First-Hand
The $10-a-month T-Satellite service keeps you connected in areas without cellular coverage -- and you don't need to be a T-Mobile subscriber or buy a new phone to use it.
Elon Musk issued a statement following a major global outage that knocked thousands of Starlink users offline late Thursday.
Soldiers panicked, drones surveilling Russian forces went dark, and long-range artillery units struggled to hit targets.
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