Massive Starlink outage hits tens of thousands across US
By
Binu Mathew
Starlink, the satellite internet network operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, was restored for most users in the United States late Monday(August 18) after a brief but widespread outage that left tens of thousands reporting connectivity issues.
According to data from Downdetector, outage reports surged past 43,000 by mid-afternoon before declining to about 2,800 at 2:13 pm ET. The crowdsourced platform tracks service problems by collecting user submissions from multiple sources.
