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| Last August, U.S. Navy officials carrying out a test of
| unmanned vessels realized they had hit a single point of
| failure: Starlink. A global outage across Elon Musk's
| satellite network affecting millions of Starlink users had
| left two dozen unmanned surface vessels bobbing off the
| California coast, disrupting communications and halting
| operations for almost an hour.
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| The incident, which involved drones intended to bolster
| U.S. military options in a conflict with China, was one of
| several Navy test disruptions linked to SpaceX's Starlink
| that left operators unable to connect with autonomous
| boats, according to internal Navy documents reviewed by
| Reuters and a person familiar with the matter.
| ... <https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/starlink-outage-hit-drone-tests-exposing-pentagons-growing-reliance-spacex-2026-04-16/>

--bks

I feel safer already.
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