SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
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Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has changed the game in terms of internet accessibility in rural and other underserved areas lacking high-speed broadband infrastructure. It has 2 million US subscribers, and more than 6 million globally.
Starlink appears to have largely recovered from a widespread outage on Thursday afternoon that affected its services across the United States and other parts of the world. Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker Down Detector earlier in the afternoon, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts.
Soldiers panicked, drones surveilling Russian forces went dark, and long-range artillery units struggled to hit targets.
A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.
If you have an iPhone 13 or later, the “game-changer” new upgrade from T-Mobile and Starlink is now live — even if T-Mobile isn’t your carrier.
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Residents in the Queen City and the surrounding areas may have seen something unusual in the sky Saturday morning.
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ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker discusses how Starlink aided in the search for a missing tourist in Western Australia. “This is kind of a great example of how this is being implemented,