vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMusk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite servicewww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down13
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkMusk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite servicewww.cnbc.comvegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squarecorroded@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·5 months agoThis 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.
minus-squareastrsk@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up32·5 months agoYou’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.
minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 months agoThey probably dorked up a bgp route or something. It was down globally.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoDid you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
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.
You’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.
That would do it!
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.