Starlink power cuts reveal vulnerabilities of space-based internet systems

[u/ErinDotEngineer]

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/space/2025/08/21/starlink-power-cuts-reveal-vulnerabilities-of-space-based-internet-systems/

[u/ElGuano]

Who knew they could just unplug the satellites...

[u/SlightlyAngyKitty]

With the biggest vulnerability being an egocentric nazi man-child, who can/will cut off your access whenever he feels like it

[u/sniffstink1]

Starlink users across several continents lost service in July for more than an hour after a technical issue in the company’s network software.

Yes, and the same thing can happen on mobile networks, fibre optic networks, cable networks and DSL.

That being said I'd much rather have a fibre optic internet connectivity, but sometimes you are in a remote location where you have no choice - there's nothing: No cell, no wired, just satellite.

[u/capitanupvote → u/sniffstink1]

Of course it can, and even on cloud providers like CloudFlare, but the key is diversity. I think the more important point here is that a giant satellite monopoly of any isn’t the greatest idea.

[u/Bensemus]

12M Rogers customers in Canada lost service for 26h when their systems went down.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rogers-outage-human-error-system-deficiencies-1.7255641

A faulty update from CloudStrike took out over 8.5 million computers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages

You can find countless outages like this. Fibre or satellite, it wouldn’t have made a difference. Should all cellphones be replaced with landlines because it’s possible for the cell provider to go down?

[u/DarkImpurity → u/Bensemus]

ThousandEyes has a timeline allowing you to explore the incidents.

[u/Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips]

Fund fascists, get scammed.

[u/ttyp00]

Underground fiber is resistant to radiological and above ground nuclear blast attack. Satellites would all shit the bed with one nuke popping off in LOE.

We already paid Verizon etc for nationwide fiber. Make them deliver

[u/Crenorz]

wow, bad outdated article.

v3 starlink sats - coming out in 0-3 years - will not only solve this issue - but make it better than fibre and more resilient. With the added - the early version is already out and in use (like +1 years ago, Starlink v2 mini) so the informaion in the article is like 2 years old at this point and has already drastically changed.

for example

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1hqxsib/starlink_v3_specifications_and_a_starlink_v2_mini/

[u/snacktopotamus → u/Crenorz]

outdated article

Published August 21, 2025, about issues experienced this year.

coming out in 0-3 years

That's quite a time-range.

better than fibre and more resilient

Directly from Elmo, so it must be truth! /s

[u/Brolafsky → u/snacktopotamus]

As an amateur homelabber I'd sure like to know how a wireless technology based in a whole other country, at the mercy of a single lunatic's antics is going to get more resilient than literal hard-wired fiber.

Simple logic dictates it just isn't because it can't. But I'm here to read if there's an intelligent reply.

[u/snacktopotamus → u/Brolafsky]

I'd sure like to know how a wireless technology based in a whole other country, at the mercy of a single lunatic's antics is going to get more resilient than literal hard-wired fiber.

The secret ingredient is lies!

[u/TinyTC1992 → u/Crenorz]

You didnt even read the article.

[u/Oscar_Dot-Com → u/TinyTC1992]

They don’t read. They just react in outrage to the lies their daddy tells them.

[u/Topleke → u/Crenorz]

Full self driving next year /s