Starlink suffers a global outage of about 2.5 hours caused by a failure in its core network software

SpaceX/Starlink

Starlink experienced a global outage of approximately 2.5 hours on July 24–25, affecting over 6 million users across roughly 140 countries. Michael Nicolls, Starlink's VP of engineering, blamed a failure of internal software services operating the core network; both he and Elon Musk apologized.

• Duration: ~2.5 hours starting around 3 p.m. Eastern Time on July 24.
• Impact: 61,000 user reports on Downdetector; service disruption across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia.
• Root cause: failure of key internal software services in core network.
• Response: NetBlocks showed traffic drop to 16% of normal; Musk promised to address root cause.