Cramer's week ahead: Fed meeting, nonfarm payrolls, Big Tech earnings At 6:23 p.m. ET, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, said in an X post that service "has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours." About two hours after that post, Starlink wrote on X that service was fully restored. Musk posted earlier Thursday that the company's direct-to-cell-phone service was "growing fast" following the announcement that T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service was available to the public. T-Mobile said the T-Satellite service was "operating normally with no network impacts or outages." The service was built to keep phones connected "in places no carrier towers can reach," according to the site. Starlink didn't respond to a request for comment.