Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX

Last August, US Navy officials carrying out a test of unmanned vessels realised they had hit a single point of failure: Starlink. A global outage across Elon Musk’s satellite network, affecting millions of Starlink users, had left two dozen unmanned surface vessels bobbing off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for almost an hour.