SpaceX plans to launch 24 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, which may be visible above Southern California.

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.

According to three sources, Musk instructed a senior SpaceX engineer in California to cut Starlink coverage in areas including Kherson, a key region Ukraine was attempting to retake.

SpaceX's Starlink experienced a major outage affecting tens of thousands of users due to an internal software failure, temporarily disrupting service for millions. The outage prompted apologies from Elon Musk and Starlink's engineering team,