A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.

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Another SpaceX Starlink launch was visible in North Carolina Saturday morning, and many of you called/sent photos in to our newsroom. The photo at the top of the article is from Esai Williams in Garner shortly before 5:30 Saturday morning. You can see the vivid streak across the sky.

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the reflected light by coating the satellites in a dark material, and also by adding reflective film to redirect the sunlight away from Earth.

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Caused by a rare internal software glitch, the outage disrupted critical communications, including Ukraine's military operations. Musk and SpaceX have promised corrective action and assured users the issue won't be repeated.