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.
SpaceX's Starlink satellite network was back up and running on Friday as engineers hunted for the root cause of one of its biggest international outages the night before, a rare disruption for the powerful internet system set off by an internal software failure.
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.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper may be the underdog against SpaceX’s Starlink today in the satellite broadband race, but a ramped-up launch schedule and tight AWS integration put Kuiper on a clear path to challenge Starlink’s lead,
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,