By Reuters | Updated: August 19, 2025
Aug 18 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s Starlink was back up for users in the U.S. after a brief outage on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.
The outage eased to over 2,800 users reporting issues with the service as of 2:13 p.m. ET, from its peak of over 43,000 incidents, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.
Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.
Starlink parent, SpaceX, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Maju Samuel
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