‘This is rocket science’: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5W6CM)
Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks
A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has been told.
About 46,500 of NBN Co's 112,000 satellite users in regional and remote parts of Australia were left without internet between 8.30pm on 21 December and 3.20am the following morning due to the incident.
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