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Elon Musk’s Starlink back up after brief outage

Published May 29, 2024 Updated May 29, 2024 11:59am
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Elon Musk’s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, is back up after an outage that affected thousands of users, the company said on Tuesday.

“The network issue has been fully resolved,” Starlink said in a post on X. Starlink’s services were down for about an hour earlier today, affecting 41,393 users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

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