SpaceX boss Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet service came to a standstill worldwide on Thursday and the service remained closed for about 2.5 hours. For this, the authorities blamed a large software problem. On the official handle of Starlink, on Thursday, the Eastern Time was informed about the obstruction in the service at around 4:00 pm. Users in the US and Europe reported problems of internet shutdown on the dowdatector. Dowdatector is a website that monitors problems in internet-based service.
Elon Musk himself apologized for this blockage. Musk posted on X, “Service will soon be restored” and apologized for this blockage. He wrote “Spacex will solve the real cause, so that it can not happen again.”
Starlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours. The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to… https://t.co/ffFYM1Z7tD
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Tech billionaire later posted a statement by Starlink Engineering President Michael Nichols, who said that the obstruction came due to “Main internal software services operating the core network”.
Nichols also said that the Starlink Network was “almost recovered”, which “lasted for about 2.5 hours.” About two hours later, Starlink posted that the problem was solved and the service was restored.