Starlink Faces First Global Internet Outage of 2025

In a surprising twist, Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service, experienced its first-ever global blackout, leaving users worldwide without internet for over two hours. The outage began around 3:15PM ET, showing strange error messages like “no healthy upstream,” which puzzled many users relying on the service for daily connectivity.

By 4:05PM, Starlink finally acknowledged the issue on X (formerly Twitter), stating it was working on a fix. The network mostly recovered by evening, according to Starlink’s Engineering VP, Michael Nicolls, who blamed the issue on a failure of key internal software services. Avague explanation for such a large disruption.

The blackout affected users everywhere, from remote areas in the U.S. to Starlink coverage zones around the world. NetBlocks reported that Starlink’s functionality dropped to just 16% during the outage.

This isn’t the only hiccup in Elon Musk’s tech empire recently. X’s chatbot Grok has been giving outdated replies, Tesla’s app briefly stopped unlocking cars, and Neuralink faced criticism over transparency. While Musk’s companies aim for the stars, these glitches are grounding confidence.

Well, even satellite-powered internet is not immune to earthly errors.

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