Starlink Under Fire: Another Internet Outage and Satellite Expansion Disputes

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet is once again facing problems. On Monday evening, the service went down for thousands of users worldwide, who flooded outage platform Downdetector with reports. The connection simply dropped—without warning or explanation.

📉 Recurring Problems

This isn’t the first time Starlink has stumbled. Just two weeks ago, a major outage disrupted the network for several hours. According to Starlink’s VP of Engineering, Michael Nicolls, the cause was a collapse of critical internal software services powering the network’s core. This time, however, SpaceX has not yet released any official statement.

📡 More Users, More Satellites

Starlink currently serves over 6 million users across 140 countries. Yet, SpaceX does not disclose figures on user retention or churn, leaving the true stability and profitability of its customer base unclear. What is public, however, is the sheer size of its fleet—more than 7,000 satellites are actively operating in orbit, far surpassing any rival. And SpaceX keeps adding more. On the very same day that customers faced connectivity issues, SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The timing was almost ironic—while users on Earth were cut off, more satellites were being added to orbit.

🌍 California Pushes Back

But expansion plans are running into resistance. The California Coastal Commission recently unanimously rejected a U.S. Space Force request that would have allowed SpaceX to double its annual launches from Vandenberg—from 50 to 100. The main concern: environmental impact. Regulators argue that noise, vibrations, and chemical use from additional launches were not properly studied. Without detailed environmental reports, the commission refused to grant approval.

🏛️ Trump Steps Into the Game

Meanwhile, Donald Trump signed an executive order weakening environmental regulations. The new rule is designed to make it easier for commercial space firms like SpaceX to launch rockets without burdensome bureaucracy. Whether this will help Musk in California remains uncertain—state commissions are not always bound by federal directives.

Starlink now stands at a crossroads: rapid expansion and record-breaking satellite numbers on one side, but mounting technical issues and regulatory pushback on the other.

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