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PREVIEW: STARLINK Colleague Brandon Weichert responds to the inadequate explanation from SpaceX for the Starlink outage. [MORE]

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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PREVIEW: STARLINK

Colleague Brandon Weichert responds to the inadequate explanation from SpaceX for the Starlink outage.

[MORE]
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Brandon Weikert of national interest about the still unexplained, inadequately brushed beside.

0:12.1

The outage of two and a half hours of Starlink.

0:16.2

I am a Starlink subscriber happily until now.

0:20.2

I want an explanation more than software, core network, double talk.

0:26.8

What caused it?

0:27.7

Otherwise, we're left to speculate that there was possibility of hostile actions here.

0:33.0

Remember, Starlink is the communication system for Ukraine, for the army in Ukraine.

0:38.9

It was a global outage.

0:41.8

Why?

0:42.4

How?

0:43.0

Give us the details.

0:44.1

Break it down moment by moment.

0:45.6

Here's Brandon to speculate, because that's what we're left with.

0:50.7

Brandon Weikert, more of this tonight.

0:52.9

Well, it certainly is techno-babel that would have made Star Trek writers blush.

0:57.9

No, again, I think this is a weird way of trying to say,

1:01.1

hey, we think there might have been somebody disrupting our networks and we don't want to admit it.

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