TL;DR

Starlink suffered a roughly 2.5-hour global blackout on 2025, July 24 after a software configuration error.

The disruption knocked tens of thousands of users offline, from regional Australia to frontline positions in Ukraine.

Rival satellite and terrestrial providers used the interruption to spotlight the value of diversified, backup connectivity.

The outage underscored the risks of depending solely on a single vendor for mission-critical communications.

Starlink goes dark

The mighty have stumbled, and the industry didn’t miss a beat.

When SpaceX’s Starlink unexpectedly went dark for roughly 2.5 hours the LEO titan handed its competitors a gift-wrapped PR opportunity no press team could have scripted better.

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