Starlink has mostly restored service after a 2.5-hour global outage affecting tens of thousands of users. Elon Musk and Starlink VP Michael Nicolls confirm the issue was due to a software failure and vow to prevent future disruptions.

SpaceX's Starlink satellite network was back up and running on Friday as engineers hunted for the root cause of one of its biggest international outages the night before, a rare disruption for the powerful internet system set off by an internal software failure.

Ukraine's forces are heavily reliant on thousands of SpaceX's Starlink terminals for battlefield communications and some drone operations, as they have proved resistant to espionage and signal jamming throughout the three and a half years of fighting Russia's invasion.