SpaceX's Starlink satellite network was back up and running on Friday as engineers hunted for the root cause of one of its biggest international outages the night before, a rare disruption for the powerful internet system set off by an internal software failure.

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service network has been restored after an hours-long outage, the Elon Musk-led unit said on in a post on X.

Starlink is experiencing an outage Thursday afternoon that's been ongoing for hours, taking down tens of thousands of people's satellite internet service. "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution.