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  "publishedAt": "2025-07-28T19:07:06.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, July 28, 2025 – A recent global Starlink outage left users from North America to war-torn Ukraine without internet for hours, cutting off vital connectivity.\n\nThe outage began around 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, _according to Downdetector,_ which received more than 61,000 user reports. At 4:05 p.m, Starlink _confirmed the crash on X_.\n\n“Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution,” the post said. “We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved.”\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n There's a whole community behind your FREE membership... \n\nThe outage came amid rising criticism of Starlink’s suitability for _the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program_, with many urging the Commerce Department to reconsider the network due to alleged vulnerabilities.\n\nThe low-Earth orbit satellite network, founded by **Elon Musk** ,**** serves more than _6 million users globally_, with recent _growth in Canada_ and ongoing critical use by the Ukrainian military.\n\n_Ukrainian military officials_ were among the first to report the failure.\n\n“Starlink is down across the entire front,” **Robert Brovdi** , Ukraine’s Commander of drone forces, wrote on Telegram at 10:41 p.m. on Thursday.\n\nThough service in Ukraine was restored by 1:05 a.m. Friday, Brovdi emphasized the serious risks the outage posed to the country’s defenses.\n\n“Combat missions were performed without a (video) feed, battlefield reconnaissance was done with strike (drones),” he stated.\n\nSpeaking anonymously to _Reuters_, another Ukrainian drone commander said that several combat operations had to be postponed due to the blackout.\n\n _Reuters also reported_that many Ukrainian officials are increasingly concerned about the military’s reliance on Starlink and cloud-based systems.\n\n“If connection to the internet is lost ... the ability to conduct combat operations is practically gone,” said **Oleksandr Dmitriev** , founder of OCHI, a non-profit Ukrainian digital system that centralizes feeds from drone crews across the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine War.\n\nBy 8:18 p.m, Starlink announced the issue had been resolved – nearly four hours after its initial post.\n\n“The network issue has been resolved, and Starlink service has been restored,” Starlink stated. “We understand how important connectivity is and apologize for the disruption.”\n\nMusk _also apologized on his X account_, stating, “Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy the root cause to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”\n\nThe exact cause of the issue has yet to be confirmed, but Starlink Vice President of Engineering **Michael Nicolls** offered a preliminary explanation.\n\n“Starlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours,” _he said at 6:23 p.m._ “The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again.”\n\nOthers speculated the outage was caused by a system upgrade.\n\n“I'm betting the Starlink outage was a systemwide upgrade,” _wrote_ **Steve Goldsby** , President and CEO of Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.",
  "title": "Starlink Software Failure Causes Global Outage",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:48:58.174Z"
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