A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.

Starlink appears to have largely recovered from a widespread outage on Thursday afternoon that affected its services across the United States and other parts of the world. Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker Down Detector earlier in the afternoon, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts.

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The Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited (BSCL), the state-run satellite operator, has struck a deal to resell the satellite internet services of Starlink, the satellite internet arm of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service experienced one of its most significant global outage on Thursday, after an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline for several hours.

Satellite texting is now available, and data access through third-party apps like X and WhatsApp will be available in October.

Shipping times for new orders in the Pacific Northwest slip to more than a month, on top of a $1,000 demand surcharge, to prevent overloading the network.