Overview
- Reports spiked across the U.S., Canada and other countries, with Downdetector showing roughly 37,000–50,000 U.S. reports around 12:30 a.m. ET before dropping below 1,000 within about an hour.
- SpaceX acknowledged the interruption on its website and said its team is investigating, and no cause has been confirmed.
- Ukraine’s unmanned systems chief said Starlink went down across the entire frontline before connectivity began gradually restoring.
- A Ukrainian drone unit postponed some flights after terminals failed to connect, highlighting battlefield reliance on the service.
- The incident follows a July 24 global outage lasting about 2.5 hours that SpaceX attributed to internal software failures, renewing reliability concerns.