Musk had told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX, the venture that controls Starlink, to cut coverage in areas including Kherson, a strategic region north of the Black Sea that Ukra

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.