Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has changed the game in terms of internet accessibility in rural and other underserved areas lacking high-speed broadband infrastructure. It has 2 million US subscribers, and more than 6 million globally.

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.

Yesterday’s widespread outage of the SpaceX Starlink network, which affected users around the globe, could have impacted operations at Runway Girl Network if we relied wholly on the Ku-band Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service for connectivity.