SpaceX, Starlink and Major Outage
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See photos from the Starlink 10-26 mission, which launched 5:01 a.m. July 26 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX Starlink has been on a satellite launch spree lately. Last week, the Elon Musk-owned company successfully sent 24 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenbueg Space Force base, and now it is planning to add 28 more satellites to its constellation.
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FOX 35 Orlando on MSNSpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday morning from Florida's Space CoastSpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket in the early hours of Saturday morning from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Port Canaveral, Florida.
Another SpaceX Starlink launch was visible in North Carolina Saturday morning, and many of you called/sent photos in to our newsroom. The photo at the top of the article is from Esai Williams in Garner shortly before 5:30 Saturday morning. You can see the vivid streak across the sky.
A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.
Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts. Starlink and its founder, Elon Musk, confirmed the outage and said they were investigating the issue.
Looking for something to do this weekend? Arizonans could catch the first Starlink satellite launch in more than a week from neighboring California.
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Nigerian Tribune on MSNStarlink suffers global outage, leaves tens of thousands without internetSpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service experienced one of its most significant global outage on Thursday, after an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline for several hours.