vegetaMusk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
astrskYou’re off ten fold. They have thousands. Around 5000 with a planned 12k after gen 3 has been fully deployed. It’s definitely a “let the intern push to prod” type of scenario by numbers alone.
They probably dorked up a bgp route or something. It was down globally.
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.