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Brief Global Starlink Outage Hits Ukraine’s Front Line Before Service Recovers

The brief loss of connectivity exposed how civilian and military operations depend on SpaceX’s privately run network.

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.