Global outage hits Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite | Australian Markets

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it’s working to seek out a repair for a community outage of its Starlink satellite web service.

The Starlink community hyperlinks about 8000 satellites which beam broadband web to hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

According to MobileCorp, there are about 200,000 subscribers in Australia. It has change into a very important communications device in distant components of the nation the place main telcos corresponding to Telstra and Optus battle to service.

SpaceX, which additionally carries people and cargo to space utilizing its Falcon household of rockets, didn’t say how widespread the outage is or how many subscribers are being affected.

“Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we’ll share an update once this issue is resolved,” it mentioned in a post on X.

Musk mentioned in a subsequent post on X that “service will be restored shortly” and that Starlink will guarantee it doesn’t occur again.

Starlink’s community started experiencing over 60,000 reported outages early Friday morning, based on Downdetector.

The space-based web service has beforehand suffered outages, together with in May 2024 and August 2021.