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Musk’s Starlink outage affects tens of thousands, including Ukrainian | |
military | |
By Lex Harvey and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN | |
Updated: | |
3:37 AM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
A brief global outage of Elon Musk’s satellite internet service | |
Starlink on Monday affected tens of thousands of people, including | |
Ukrainian military forces across the entire frontline. | |
More than 37,000 US users were reporting issues with the internet | |
service Monday at 12:30 a.m. ET, according to the website | |
Downdetector.com. By 1:30 a.m., that number had fallen into the | |
hundreds. | |
The internet service owned by Musk’s SpaceX stopped working on “the | |
entire frontline in Ukraine” around 7:30 a.m. Kyiv time (12.30 a.m. | |
ET), said Maj. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s | |
unmanned systems force, on Telegram. As of 8:00 a.m., service was | |
gradually being restored, he said. | |
Starlink has more than 6 million global users, according to its | |
website. It provides high-speed internet service using a network of | |
thousands of satellites at low-Earth orbit, enabling it to reach remote | |
communities. | |
Ukraine has throughout Russia’s invasion to run its fleet of attack | |
drones but has reported connectivity issues in the past. | |
Monday’s outage is the second in two months affecting the war-torn | |
country. On July 24, Starlink went out for more than two hours; as a | |
result, combat operations had to be carried out without live streams. | |
“This incident, which lasted a long 150 minutes in the war, points to | |
bottlenecks. Should be taken into account and to diversify | |
communications,” Brovdi said on Telegram at the time. | |
Starlink acknowledged the outage Monday in a post to its website, which | |
has since been taken down, Reuters reported. | |
“Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is | |
investigating,” the notice said, according to Reuters. There was no | |
immediate word about the cause of the outage. | |
CNN has reached out to Space X for comment. | |
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