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Starlink Suffers Brief Global Outage, Including Across Ukraine’s Front Line

The incident renewed questions about the reliability of a privately run network underpinning critical communications.

Ukraine's military uses Starlink to gather intelligence and
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Starlink satellite antennas are seen at an international trade show in Berlin in 2023.
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Overview

  • Downdetector logged more than 43,000 U.S. problem reports around 12:35 a.m. ET, dropping to the hundreds by about 1:30 a.m.
  • Maj. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi said Starlink went down across Ukraine’s entire frontline around 7:30 a.m. Kyiv time, with gradual restoration beginning within roughly 30 minutes.
  • Starlink acknowledged a service outage on its website with a notice saying the team was investigating, which outlets reported was later removed as service recovered.
  • Reports described disruptions across multiple regions, with the widely used satellite service connecting millions of civilian and military users worldwide.
  • No cause was confirmed for the latest outage, which follows a July 24 global disruption that lasted about 2.5 hours and was attributed to failures in core internal software services.