According to the “Down Detector” website, more than 43,000 reports of service outages were recorded in the United States alone within a few hours on the evening of September 15. There are concerns about the potential global impact of these disruptions. The internet services outage, owned by the American billionaire Elon Musk, has sparked a wave of speculation about the causes of the sudden malfunction. The company issued a brief statement saying it is working on gradually restoring the service, confirming the outage occurred without revealing its technical causes.
Access to Starlink’s satellite service relies on simple equipment, including a reception dish placed on building rooftops, which is connected to a small device installed at the targeted site to broadcast the internet wirelessly. This system is commonly used in the United States and many other countries worldwide.
