Thousands of Britons facing internet BLACKOUT as Musk’s satellites in ‘critical’ state

SpaceX launches batch of Starlink satellites with Falcon 9

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The warning was issued at 6:56am by Fingerpick Internet Alert. They reported thatcher a “critical” internet outage was “ongoing” for Starlink in England. The issue is said to have started at 12:50am, with London impacted.

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It is not yet clear what the source of the problem is.

To date, SpaceX has launched more than 2,000 satellites for Starlink. 

Mr Musk’s began rolling out its internet service to customers last year, and now has approximately 145,000 users in 25 countries worldwide.

Starlink is available to order in more than six counties and recently rolled out its “Better Than Nothing Beta” test.

It costs $99 (£73) a month, plus (£366) $499 for a kit with a tripod, a WiFi router, and a terminal to connect to the Starlink satellites.

Philip Hall, in rural Devon, south-west England, told Insider he was one of the first people in the UK to receive the Starlink kit and test out its internet connection.

Hall has barely any internet connection where he lives, making running a business and contacting the family extremely challenging.

Despite the connection dropping out from time to time and the limited range of the signal, he said Starlink was “a hope and a prayer.”

It comes after 40 Starlink satellites were wiped out by a solar storm just a day after launch earlier this month.

The company said up to 40 of 49 satellites on February 9.

SpaceX said: “Onboard GPS suggests the escalation speed and severity of the storm caused atmospheric drag to increase up to 50 percent higher than during previous launches.”

The tech company tried to put the satellites into a “safe mode,” but was unsuccessful.

They headed back to Earth orbit, burning up in the atmosphere on their way back.

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