July 24, 2025 4:55 p.m. PT Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Starlink experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that went on for 2.5 hours and took down at least tens of thousands of people's satellite internet service. "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved," Starlink posted on X at 1:05 p.m. PT/4:05 p.m. ET. Though Starlink has yet to confirm that services are fully up and running again, Downdetector showed reports of issues had dropped to just 1,600 as of 4:30 p.m PT after they'd spiked to around 60,000 at about 1 p.m. PT. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service was "mostly restored." 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.