Starlink appears to have largely recovered from a widespread outage on Thursday afternoon that affected its services across the United States and other parts of the world. Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker Down Detector earlier in the afternoon, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts.

Soldiers panicked, drones surveilling Russian forces went dark, and long-range artillery units struggled to hit targets.

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.

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Starlink systems used by Ukrainian military units were down for two and a half hours overnight, a senior commander said, part of a global issue that disrupted the satellite internet provider.

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Caused by a rare internal software glitch, the outage disrupted critical communications, including Ukraine's military operations. Musk and SpaceX have promised corrective action and assured users the issue won't be repeated.