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Report: SpaceX's Starlink Outage Left Navy Drone Ships Dead in the Water

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A global outage of SpaceX's Starlink satellite network last August left two dozen U.S. Navy unmanned vessels stranded off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for nearly an hour during critical military tests.

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The U.S. Navy exercise provided for the use of autonomous naval units, in a crisis scenario, which might be concerned, hopefully never happen, a conflict with China. But the officers discovered during the activity that more than the Dragon, they had to worry about another "enemy": Starlink. According to documents viewed by the agency Reuters, the exercise scheduled in August 2025 did not go well: the reason is to lead back to an interruption of …

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Incident involving drones designed to boost US military capabilities in conflict with China was one of several Navy test failures linked to SpaceX's Starlink

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Breitbart broke the news in United States on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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