Musk's Starlink hit with hourslong outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink said it had a “network outage” on Thursday.

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink said it had a “network outage” on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution.

There were more than 60,000 reports of an outage on Downdetector, a site that logs issues.

Starlink is owned and operated by SpaceX, which is also run by Musk.

At 4:30 p.m. ET, Musk apologized for the outage on X and said, “Service will be restored shortly.”

At 6:23 p.m. ET, SpaceX’s vice president of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, said in an X post that service “has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours.”