Elon Musk’s Starlink faced a major outage Sunday, with over 45,000 users reporting issues, according to DownDetector.
Elon Musk-owned satellite internet service is down for thousands of users on Sunday afternoon, as per DownDetector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users’ reports. At the time of this writing, more than 45,000 users reported facing an outage with Starlink.
Users from multiple states in the US, such as Arizona, Utah, New Jersey and Nevada, among others, reported the outage. As per DownDetector, 60% of the users said they had internet issues, while 40% said they faced a total blackout.
Since the peak of the outage with more than 49,000 reports, the reports have since dropped. As of now, around 20,000 people are facing issues with Starlink.
Starlink Outage Map
DownDetector provides a live outage map for various services, including Starlink. When the outage happened on Sunday evening, the key areas affected were Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and St Louis.
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Here’s a map of the outage as seen on Down Detector:
Starlink is available (i.e. licensed and operating) in over 100 countries and territories worldwide as of mid-2025.
The article originally appeared on Hindustan Times
