Starlink’s satellite telecommunications services, the Elon Musk SpaceX company subsidiary, were interrupted Thursday for several hours following a breakdown, the company said. “Starlink is now largely restored after the network failure, which lasted about two and a half hours. The breakdown was due to a failure of the main internal software services which manage the central network ”said on X Michael Nicolls, vice-president of Starlink Engineering.
The company, the world’s leading operator of satellite telecommunications, said a few hours earlier on the same social network undergoing a breakdown affecting its customers’ communications. According to the Downdetector site, which lists the communications breakdowns of many operators and online platforms, up to 60,000 reports were made Thursday about the Starlink network.
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Starlink’s services, which is based on a constellation of more than 6,000 satellites deployed in low orbit, allow its customers to equip themselves with a terrestrial terminal in order to benefit from an internet connection, especially in non -rural or remote areas. According to the figures published by the company in mid-July, Starlink has more than 6 million subscribers worldwide.