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Musk's Starlink back up after brief outage

"The network issue has been fully resolved," Starlink said in a post on X. 

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Wed, May 29, 2024 Published on May. 29, 2024 Published on 2024-05-29T10:42:29+07:00

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Musk's Starlink back up after brief outage This photograph taken on September 25, 2022, shows an antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system donated by American tech billionaire Elon Musk in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

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lon 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.

SpaceX's Starlink, which owns around 60 percent of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth, is dominant in the satellite internet sphere. 

Earlier this month, Musk launched his Starlink service in Bali as Indonesia aims to extend internet to its remote areas.

Millions of people in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, are not currently hooked up to reliable internet services.

Musk, making his first visit to Indonesia, inaugurated the satellite unit services at a clinic in Bali's capital Denpasar on Sunday afternoon.

He also signed an agreement on the health sector along with Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin. 

Musk and the officials also attended a presentation by staff members from Indonesia's community clinics in Bali and Maluku provinces on the acceleration of internet speeds after using Starlink.

The internet services have been pilot-tested in three health facilities in the regions to input various data sets into the national system, such as those on immunisations, child nutrition and diabetes.

 

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