According to The Kyiv Independent, the outage affected Ukrainian troops who rely on Starlink terminals, citing a Telegram message from the military saying Starlink is down across the entire front. The military now says its connections are back online after going down for about 150 minutes, “the longest in the war.”

Since Thursday's outage, a few Starlink users have reported faster speeds, raising speculation that the outage happened while SpaceX was trying to upgrade its network.

Yesterday’s widespread outage of the SpaceX Starlink network, which affected users around the globe, could have impacted operations at Runway Girl Network if we relied wholly on the Ku-band Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service for connectivity.