{"id":1383348,"date":"2026-04-17T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/starlink-failed-the-us-army-a-satellite-communication-failure-from-spacex-disrupted-tests-of-marine-drones-near-california\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:15:15","slug":"starlink-failed-the-us-army-a-satellite-communication-failure-from-spacex-disrupted-tests-of-marine-drones-near-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/starlink-failed-the-us-army-a-satellite-communication-failure-from-spacex-disrupted-tests-of-marine-drones-near-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink failed the US Army: a satellite communication failure from SpaceX disrupted tests of marine drones near California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A global outage of the Starlink satellite network has disrupted a U.S. Navy drone test off the coast of California, exposing the risks of the U.S. military’s reliance on a single communications provider.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by Reuters<\/a> .<\/p>\n

According to journalists, the outage affected millions of users and led to the loss of communication with approximately 20 unmanned surface vehicles, which forced operations to be halted for almost 1 hour.<\/p>\n

It was one of several incidents during tests involving SpaceX systems, according to internal documents, in which operators repeatedly lost connectivity to the autonomous craft, which are seen as a key element in a potential conflict with China.<\/p>\n

Journalists also note that the Starlink system has become critical to US military programs, including drone control and missile tracking. The network includes nearly 10,000 satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

“Without Starlink, the US government would not have access to global satellite communications on this scale,” said Clayton Swope, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n

The material emphasizes that, despite its resistance to potential attacks, such a system creates risks due to its dependence on a single supplier.<\/p>\n

In addition, SpaceX has strengthened its position as a key partner of the US government, covering satellite communications, space launches, and military systems with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

At the same time, journalists note that, despite competition from Amazon, the company remains a leader in low-orbit satellite communications and dominates the space launch market.<\/p>\n

It is separately emphasized that American lawmakers express concern about national security dependence on one company, as this could create risks in the event of termination of cooperation.<\/p>\n

Recall that SpaceX, at the request of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has implemented countermeasures in the operation of the Starlink satellite communication system in the country<\/a> . Some users are already noticing temporary restrictions aimed at increasing the level of security.<\/p>\n

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Subsequently, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said that the Starlinks included in the \u201cwhite list\u201d are working, and the Russian terminals have already been blocked.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A global outage of the Starlink satellite network has disrupted a U.S. Navy drone test off the coast of California, exposing the risks of the U.S. military’s reliance on a single communications provider. This is reported by Reuters . According to journalists, the outage affected millions of users and led to the loss of communication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1001278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1383348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}