⚡️🌍❌📡 Global Starlink Outage

On the evening of Wednesday, July 24, a global outage struck SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband network. Users across four continents lost Internet access for 2.5 hours.
The outage began at 21:00 CEST (19:00 GMT — 3:15 PM ET or 12:15 PM PT) and lasted until 23:30 CEST (6:23 PM ET).
Scope and Impact

⏺The issue affected users worldwide: Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia — impacting private customers, businesses, government bodies, and military units alike.

⏺The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) confirmed a complete Starlink shutdown along the entire frontline: terminals were unavailable for around 2.5 hours, causing temporary loss of drone control, video feeds, and command communications. This was the longest outage since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Reuters

⏺Similar problems were reported by those using Starlink for aviation (notably on United Airlines flights), maritime shipping, and other critical infrastructure.


⏺Connectivity data from NetBlocks showed a sharp drop to just 16% of normal traffic levels, with outage reports flooding social media and tracking platforms — more than 60,000 outage reports were logged on Downdetector.

SpaceX and Elon Musk publicly apologized and announced an immediate investigation and efforts to address the root cause.

“The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network,” stated Michael Nichols, Starlink’s Vice President of Engineering.

➡️ According to internal sources cited on Reddit, the disruption was triggered by a failed software update that temporarily “soft-bricked” portions of the satellite mesh network, causing a loss of inter-satellite and ground-station communication.

❗️The outage comes just weeks after Starlink launched its Direct-to-Device (D2D) service in select markets, raising questions about the network’s resilience as its global footprint expands.

ℹ️ Shortly before the incident, Starlink’s partner T-Mobile unveiled the T-Satellite service, running on Starlink infrastructure. The service aims to provide connectivity between mobile phones in areas unreachable by traditional cell towers. It's unclear whether the Starlink outage affected T-Satellite operations, — CNBC.

Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX and contributes over half of the company’s annual revenue, — Bloomberg

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«Аллё, барышня, Смольный!»☎️
🤦‍♂️🇷🇺❌🌐После кибератаки на Аэрофлот 28 июля, российские власти придумали кардинальный способ борьбы с уязвимостями в критической инфраструктуре — отключение от Интернета 🔥

Мало того, что «Госуслуги» рухнули вслед за IT-системами «Аэрофлота», вот уже который день наблюдаются сбои в работе мобильного банкинга (см.скрины с сайта Downdetector за сегодня, 1 августа)

🔴 Депутаты Госдумы призывают россиян снимать наличные, пока не поздно, а отключение интернета воспринимать "как данность": «Жизнь не ограничивается комфортом».

— Ограничение или отключение интернета — необходимая мера, поскольку есть объекты критической инфраструктуры, вывод из строя которых может иметь серьёзные последствия, — заявил депутат ГД Владимир Гутенев

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Видимо, "вывод из строя" сети Интернет по всей стране в 21 веке российские депутаты не воспринимают как "серьезные последствия".😂

⁉️ Кроме того, 15 июля стало известно, что Министерство цифрового развития совместно с операторами связи ведёт работу по созданию "централизованного механизма" отключений мобильной связи.

Поздравляем всех россиян с суверенным отключением от цивилизации!

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☎️🇷🇺❌🌐 After the cyberattack on Aeroflot on July 28, the Russian authorities came up with a truly groundbreaking way to tackle vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure — by simply disconnecting from the Internet 🔥

Not only did the “Gosuslugi” government services crash right after Aeroflot’s IT systems went down, but for days now we’ve seen ongoing failures in mobile banking as well (see today’s screenshots from Downdetector, August 1).

🔴 State Duma deputies are urging Russians to withdraw cash while they still can and to just accept the internet shutdown as “a given”:

“Life is not limited by comfort,”

said State Duma deputy Vladimir Gutenev.
— “Limiting or cutting off the internet is a necessary measure, because there are critical infrastructure facilities whose disruption can have serious consequences.”

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Apparently, in the 21st century, Russian deputies don’t consider a nationwide shutdown of the internet to be one of those “serious consequences.”😎

⁉️ Moreover, on July 15 it was revealed that the Ministry of Digital Development, together with telecom operators, is working on creating a “centralized mechanism” for disabling mobile communications.

Congratulations to all Russians on their sovereign disconnection from civilization!

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‼️🇷🇺❌🌐 Mass shutdowns of mobile and wired internet on July 30 and 31 were recorded in 62 and 57 regions of Russia, respectively — out of 89 regions of the Russian Federation
However, there have been worse: on July 8, mobile internet was disconnected in 77 Russian regions at once, and on July 18 — in 79 regions
🔴 In total, in July 2025, Russian authorities disconnected mobile internet at least 2,099 times — it's a record, according to a study by the independent project "On the line." There were 69 shutdowns in May, 662 in June, and 2,099 in July.

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‼️🇷🇺❌🌐 Массовые отключения мобильного и проводного интернета 30 и 31 июля зафиксированы в 62 и 57 регионах России соответственно — из 89 регионов РФ
Впрочем, бывало и хуже: 8 июля мобильный интернет был отключен сразу в 77 субъектах РФ, а 18 июля — в 79 регионах
🔴 Всего в июле 2025 года российские власти не менее 2099 раз отключали мобильный интернет — это рекорд, говорится в исследовании независимого проекта "На связи". В мае отключений было 69, в июне – уже 662, а в июля — 2099.

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