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.

Elon Musk’s Starlink network is experiencing a worldwide outage, which has left thousands of users without internet, according to reports. Reports of issues began on Thursday at around 9 pm CET. Musk wrote on X six hours after the reports of the outage that the network issue had been resolved and that service had been restored.

Caused by a rare internal software glitch, the outage disrupted critical communications, including Ukraine's military operations. Musk and SpaceX have promised corrective action and assured users the issue won't be repeated.