Elon Musk’s Starlink network is experiencing a worldwide outage, which has left thousands of users without internet, according to reports.
Reports of issues began on Thursday at around 9 pm CET.
Musk wrote on X six hours after the reports of the outage that the network issue had been resolved and that service had been restored.
"The network issue has been resolved, and Starlink service has been restored. We understand how important connectivity is and apologise for the disruption," he wrote.
However, some Starlink users wrote on the site Down Detector that their network was still down on Friday morning.
No reason has been given for the outage.
More than 60,000 reports of issues were reported on Down Detector, with the majority of users saying there was a “total blackout”.
Starlink users on X reported issues from Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, and Australia. This included reports on Down Detector from Colombia, Sardinia in Italy, Stockholm in Sweden, and New Hampshire in the US.
Many of them said that their connections are offline, and an error message reads that there is “no healthy upstream”.
Musk wrote on X "Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn’t happen again," Musk wrote on X.
For some countries and governments, such as Ukraine’s army, they rely on Starlink for internet access. It is unclear how they will be affected.
What is Starlink?
Starlink is a telecommunications provider that is part of Musk's SpaceX.
The satellite internet constellation gives global mobile broadband to around 130 countries and territories.
The company plans to have 12,000 satellites and aims to have more than 34,000 eventually.
Earlier on Thursday, SpaceX said its direct-to-cell-phone service was growing fast, which came a day after an announcement that T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service rolled out to the public.
It is unclear whether the T-Satellite service was affected by or involved in the outage.
