Frequent Outages in Starlink Service.. SpaceX Launches a New Batch of Satellites

The satellite internet service "Starlink", owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, experienced a sudden service outage on Monday, according to thousands of reports on the "Down Detector" website, which monitors technical failures.

This is the second service outage in just two weeks, as reported by "CNBC", without SpaceX issuing any immediate comment on the incident.

The service had a similar outage on July 24, which lasted for several hours, where Michael Nichols, Vice President of Starlink Engineering at SpaceX, explained that the cause was due to "failure of the main internal software services that run the core network" of the service.

This technical failure came shortly after Starlink launched a direct mobile phone communication service in collaboration with "T-Mobile", which aims to enable users to stay connected "in areas not covered by traditional communication towers", according to a statement published on T-Mobile's official website.

It is noted that "Starlink" provides internet services to more than 6 million subscribers in 140 countries, according to SpaceX's official website, although the company has not publicly disclosed subscription or withdrawal rates.

SpaceX owns the largest fleet of broadband internet satellites in the world, with currently over 7,000 operational satellites, according to astronomer Jonathan McDowell's research.

In related news, SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of Starlink satellites on Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, as part of its plans to increase launches from 50 to 100 annually.