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 reported global outage on July 24, 2025 disrupting millions worldwide for 2.5 hours due to software failure. Ukraine military ops affected. Full analysis.

SpaceX's Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal  software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk's powerful satellite internet system.