India, July 25 -- Elon Musk has responded to a major Starlink outage after thousands of users reported a total blackout on Thursday. Adding to the disruption, Starlink's official website was also temporarily down.

Apologizing to users on X, Musk wrote, "Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn't happen again."

Many users reported their Starlink service showing as "restricted based on location."

One wrote on X, "Mine is showing restricted based on location now. I assume that is part of this outage? I am not seeing any other mentions of that."

Starlink confirmed the disruption in a statement: "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solu...