Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.
This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence.
Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
Other social media networks may tolerate this but this is not HN worthy.
Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service has "now mostly recovered from the network outage" after two and a half hours.
"The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again," the tweet, posted at 3:23 p.m. PT, says.
Edit: funny, can't even access the replies..
And of course, they have to downvote to hell. They need to keep the illusion that the US is still the most powerful military, the most powerful economy, and that AI will save their hegemony.
Really sad.
What is the illusion is that a powerful military is enough to win a conflict.
If anyone has benefited humanity over the last couple of decades, it's Elon Musk! I'd argue he's done more than anyone!