Elon Musk’s satellite internet Starlink was last night hit with a global outage preventing tens of thousands of users from accessing the web.
According to DownDetector, reports of issues began to surge around 8pm GMT, with tens of thousands of worldwide users reporting issues at the peak of the outage. The difficulties persisted for several hours – and affected people in countries across the globe – until the service was finally restored this morning.
Mr Musk eventually spoke out about the chaos, apologising to Starlink’s users. He said: “Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
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