Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is investigating

Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by mixdup on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:12PM (#44675470)

The fleet of satellites is still managed centrally, even if the physical infrastructure is distributed globally to be able to see satellites in different hemispheres, at some point they are very likely managing these from a single control plane

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by AdamJacobMuller on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:18PM (#44675540)

I wonder what they do for out of band on satellites.

It's not like you can have a tech go out and reboot it or reinstall windows.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by lxgr on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:13PM (#44676234)

I bet they have some pretty robust hardware watchdogs that allow rebooting, booting from firmware OTA etc. in case of local data corruption.

Here's a great talk on roughly this topic: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-rec...

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by cyanydeez on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:30PM (#44675718)

Their space infra is all disposable. Its GUGD.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by lxgr on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:13PM (#44676240)

Each individual satellite, yes. But killing all of them at the same time, e.g. due to a bad software or configuration update, might be the end of the company.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by cyanydeez on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:49PM (#44676694)

yeah, that would be an interesting dillema. Lucky for us, they technically arn't designed to be anything but disposable, so they'll fall from the heavens eventually.

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