SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
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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.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper may be the underdog against SpaceX’s Starlink today in the satellite broadband race, but a ramped-up launch schedule and tight AWS integration put Kuiper on a clear path to challenge Starlink’s lead,
SpaceX is targeting Saturday evening for the launch of its latest Starlink Mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
According to three sources, Musk instructed a senior SpaceX engineer in California to cut Starlink coverage in areas including Kherson, a key region Ukraine was attempting to retake.