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.

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.

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.

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the reflected light by coating the satellites in a dark material, and also by adding reflective film to redirect the sunlight away from Earth.

Soldiers panicked, drones surveilling Russian forces went dark, and long-range artillery units struggled to hit targets.

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ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker discusses how Starlink aided in the search for a missing tourist in Western Australia. “This is kind of a great example of how this is being implemented,

A Chinese satellite has set a new record by transmitting data from 36,000 km using a 2-watt laser, achieving speeds of 1 Gbps. The breakthrough triggered viral claims that it had “pulverized” Starlink satellites.