Beyond launch: SpaceX’s expanding role in U.S. defense
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/spacexs-expanding-role-in-u-s-defense/
#starshield
Hey guys, Daniel Suguwa here! Today is my 23th live stream, let's watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket - Starshield NROL-145 spy satellites launch mission right here! :D
Stream link: https://youtu.be/hfs585ecxTs
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch third NRO mission in eight days
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SpaceX launches Starshield satellites for the NRO on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
Hey guys, Daniel Suguwa here! Today is my 19th live stream, let's watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket - Starshield NROL-192 mission (USA-499 - USA-518) launch mission right here! :D
Stream link: https://youtube.com/live/vl7cYRUczug
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch reconnaissance satellites for the NRO on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Then there’s the #taxes, of course.
The billionaires don’t want to pay them, and Trump is amenable to that.
Scott Bessent, nominated for Treasury Secretary, said “the most important economic issue of the day”
was making sure tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy stayed in place.
Bessent is accused of being a tax dodge himself.
Mass privatization could make things even more profitable for the tech industry
But that’s all small potatoes.
The real money is in the #military.
The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen
— also a board member of Meta and major investor in X
— has been recruiting Trump administration staffers and even influencing Defense Department and intelligence agency hiring, The Washington Post reports.
As usual, he’s given the game away by bragging about it on a podcast.
Silicon Valley investors generally have been bullish on defense tech like industry poster children #Anduril and #Palantir.
(a16z is a major Anduril backer, and both companies are founded and owned by some of the Valley’s earliest MAGA faithful.)
They want to shift Pentagon spending away from old-school contractors like Lockheed Martin,
which appears to be so freaked out that when the “Big Tech Alert” X account noted it had unfollowed Musk,
the Lockheed account DM’d to say it was “inadvertent.”
Musk’s #SpaceX has a number of contracts with the US military and intelligence agencies,
including the so-called #Starshield satellites.
He’s used his influence to meddle in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and has even reportedly taken phone calls from Vladimir Putin.
The military’s interest in artificial intelligence has also inspired a new race for everything from
building out data centers to providing cloud computing.
Musk’s #xAI, something of an also-ran next to OpenAI, Meta, and Google, could legitimize itself with DoD contracts.
How #ElonMusk caused the murder of #Ukrainians by blocking #Starlink internet use for the Ukrainian military and allies, using his #StarShield.
We, the people, are rising up everywhere taking back what is ours and Musk will be first on the list of greedy, narcissistic psychopaths leading this apocalypse for profit. We will overthrow this circus of greed, and return to horizontal organization of society. There is no authority but ourselves.
Out of the other media coverage Politico got it almost right, because they clearly explain that #IRIS2 is not a competitor to #Starlink.
Their title (“Relax Elon — the EU isn’t an immediate threat to Starlink”) is still a bit manipulative, because it kind of ignores the fact that Elon does indeed run a project - the SpaceX #Starshield - for which IRIS2 is a direct competitor. But later on in the article they do explain it.
But here’s a paragraph that I find much more valuable because I myself also used this analogy as well:
However, the bloc’s earlier space programs — such as GPS-alternative Galileo and Earth observation system Copernicus — also attracted similar criticism, but are now considered world-beating space infrastructure.
My own point was that media has a tendency to moan about everything without really digging into the essence of the problem. When Galileo was rolled out, the media moaned “why own GNSS when there’s free GPS”. Now when Russia is jamming GPS in EU, everyone is again moaning “why EU isn’t doing anything with it”. Well, they actually do and both Galileo and IRIS2 are direct responses to these challenges.
https://www.politico.eu/article/relax-elon-musk-eu-threat-starlink-iris2-broadband-internet/
Ukraine Allowed Access to Military Satellite Internet- Starshield
#SpaceX #Starshield #Starlink #satellite #internet #communication #SpecialMilitaryOperation #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar #RussianInvasion
Ukraine Allowed Access to Military Satellite Internet- Starshield
#SpaceX #Starshield #Starlink #satellite #internet #communication #SpecialMilitaryOperation #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar #RussianInvasion
SpaceXがNROのためにStarshield衛星の4回目の打ち上げを行う
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/24/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-multiple-satellites-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb/
SpaceXがNROのために4回目の打ち上げを行い、Starshield衛星を運びました。NROL-167ミッションでは、数個の衛星が追加されました。 #SpaceX #NRO #Starshield
The Multifunctional Reconnaissance Company combines soldier specialties with new equipment to detect and destroy enemy threats using small, mobile teams.#multifunctional-reconnaissance-company #multifunctional-reconnaissance-team #101st-airborne-division #75th-ranger-regiment #transformation-in-contact #starshield #shrike-application-army #joint-readiness-training-center #fort-johnson #ausa-2024 #circulated-defense-news #circulated-army-times #circulated-military-times
Take notes, a formation like this could be coming to your unit soon
Take notes, a formation like this could be coming to your unit soon
Ars Technica reports that SpaceX is working with Northrop Grumman, a defense contracting company, on a constellation of spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. 🔗 https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/spacex-working-with-northrop-grumman-on-spy-satellites-for-us-government/
"It is in the government's interest to not be totally invested in one company run by one person," one of the news agency's sources said, most likely referring to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
This spysat constellation is considered to be "proliferated" because there will be swarms of satellites launched into low-Earth orbit to provide imaging and other capabilities, and these should be less vulnerable to enemy attack because of their large numbers.
#intelligence #news #spacex #NRO #Starshield #NothropGrumman
“We’ve changed our procurement methods to take advantage of #LEO technologies,” Troy Meink, #NRO's principal deputy director, said in a speech at the Satellite 2024 conference on Monday, according to SpaceNews.
"Our main priority is to meet the requirements with minimum risk.
When the new constellation, or at least an initial segment thereof, might begin #collecting #intelligence operationally, if it hasn't already, isn't clear.
#SpaceX has been launching relevant prototype satellites since 2020, before its formal contract with NRO,
and "a U.S. government database of objects in orbit shows several SpaceX missions having deployed satellites that neither the company nor the government have ever acknowledged," per Reuters.
In the context of the Reuters report about its work for the NRO, SpaceX's Starshield website does currently list "Earth Observation" as one of its three main focus areas.
The other two are "Communications" and "Hosted Payloads."
"Starlink already offers unparalleled end-to-end user data #encryption.
Starshield uses additional high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely, meeting the most demanding government requirements," according to the Starshield site.
"Starlink's inter-satellite #laser #communications terminal, which is the only communications laser operating at scale in orbit today, can be integrated onto partner satellites to enable incorporation into the Starshield network."
Laser-based communications systems are capable of sending large amounts of information quickly and are also highly secure and resistant to electronic warfare jamming
#Starshield
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office ( #NRO ) is reportedly acquiring a #constellation of hundreds of #intelligence-#gathering #satellites from SpaceX,
with a specific focus on tracking targets down below in support of ground operations.
Though details about this project are still very limited, there are clear parallels to what the U.S. Space Force has previously said about a highly classified #space-#based #radar #surveillance program,
which it first publicly disclosed around the same time SpaceX is said to have gotten its NRO contract.
If this program is the one we think it is, it could bring about a revolution in both tactical and strategic space-based sensing
#Starshield, SpaceX's government-sales-focused business unit, has been working on the new low Earth orbit (LEO) spy satellites under a $1.8 billion contract it received in 2021 from NRO, according to a report from Reuters this past weekend
The Wall Street Journal had previously published a story about the existence of the contract in February, but did not name NRO as being involved or provide specific details about the deal's scope of work
https://www.twz.com/space/if-spacexs-secret-constellation-is-what-we-think-it-is-its-game-changing
Reuters says that SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021. “hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits” ... “‘No one can hide,’ one of the sources said of the system’s potential capability, when describing the network's reach.” 🔗 https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/
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