Late Thursday night (25 July at around 1:30 AM IST), Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service suffered a rare global outage, leaving millions of users across the US, Europe and other regions (a total of 140 countries) without internet access.
The outage lasted around 2.5 hours before services were restored, but a lot of users sparked up the concern on social media.
Elon Musk took to social media to apologise to Starlink users, stating, “This shouldn’t have happened and won’t happen again.” SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company, also issued a formal apology and acknowledged the rare fault in its systems. Musk emphasised that corrective steps are already underway to prevent future service lapses.
