{"id":21353,"date":"2025-07-26T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/starlink-experiences-worldwide-outage-thursday\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:36:42","slug":"starlink-experiences-worldwide-outage-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/starlink-experiences-worldwide-outage-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink experiences worldwide outage Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1499\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"43601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/07\/24\/starlink-experiences-worldwide-outage-thursday\/5b2a0161\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"7254,4838\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"5B2A0161\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Starlink in Germany (Austin DeSisto)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A0161.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tStarlink in Germany (Austin DeSisto)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starlink, SpaceX\u2019s satellite internet service, experienced a global network outage on Thursday afternoon, Starlink said on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43597\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service started being reported down by users around 3:30PM eastern time Thursday. Official confirmation came from Starlink at 4:05PM on X stating that they were aware of the outage and working the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users on the Starlink app saw \u201coptimizing connection\u201d or \u201coffline\u201d during the outage and were unable to access the internet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service was restored after about 2.5 hours down.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-43597',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStarlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours. &nbsp;The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. &nbsp;We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again,\u201d said Michael Nicolls, Vice President of Starlink Engineering, on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk also chimed in during the outage saying\u201d Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Starlink website, the service has over six million global users and counting. During today\u2019s outage, all users, from private to business, had no internet access via Starlink. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43598\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/07\/24\/starlink-experiences-worldwide-outage-thursday\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" height=\"382\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=300,112 300w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=768,287 768w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=1024,382 1024w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=1536,574 1536w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=350,131 350w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=140,52 140w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=1600,598 1600w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/networkupdate_fullbleedimage1_d.jpg?resize=150,56 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Starlink latency and speed over time (Starlink)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service now has over 7,800 satellites in orbit and services over 140 countries, territories, and other markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This post was sent with Starlink after service was restored.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}