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.