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Doug Mohney retweeted
Caroline is incredible at this research. I’m getting chills just thinking about this as evidence of war crimes against US citizens. We have a right to the truth. X is the ultimate psyop.
I analyzed hundreds of tweets from this past weekend and found evidence of two unique disinformation campaigns amplifying Elon Musk’s accusations against Ukraine. One of these campaigns can be traced back to a Russian social media account and one of Putin’s top allies. my latest. (Link 👇)
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Our President and CEO @Jspalter is in Seattle to talk with @CostQuest's CEO James Stegeman at #FabricForward26 about how data, smart policy and investment work together to turn plans into fiber networks. Let's get building.
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Any time Strip casinos are trying to entice Vegas locals to visit, you know things are getting serious, economy-wise.
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Doug Mohney retweeted
SpaceX pauses Florida rocket launches for 6 weeks as the company prepares to introduce Starship flights at Kennedy Space Center. Florida is currently experiencing a rocket launch drought after a record-breaking 2025. The last Falcon 9 launch from the state was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 20. Other launch providers like Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance currently have no firm launch dates scheduled.
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Doug Mohney retweeted
In hindsight there are some hilarious tweets lying around : - It did happen, politicians funded an european lander - Starship didn't go to Mars in 2026, nor will it in 2028 - ESA didn't have to buy a launch, as NASA offered it
This will never happen for political reasons, but the simplest course for ESA would be to book passage as a rideshare payload on Starship to Mars in 2026 or 2028. You get there years earlier, and don't need to buy a launch vehicle separately.
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So are there 2 Alphas ready to launch this year @FireflySpace...? xitter.cf/pbdes/status/211475228…
.@Open_Cosmos returns to @ITUradiocomms with satellite status details to win deadline extension for Connected Cosmos broadband constellation. Co. maintains it has binding contract w/ @FireflySpace for 4 launches, each carrying 6 sats, to occur by June 2027.spaceintelreport.com/open-co…
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Doug Mohney retweeted
First day and 27th day?? These pirates can’t wait for one month to sell?
Anthropic's lockup is insane What are we doing here
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Doug Mohney retweeted
The team also made progress at LC-36B yesterday. Roughly 450 truckloads of concrete, lined up bumper-to-bumper and stretching nearly 3 miles up the coast, supported a 4,500-cubic-yard pour for the pile caps. Three more placements to go for a total of 15,000 cubic yards. This is the foundation for our New Glenn 9x4 pad.
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Wall Street is now running tabletop exercises for an AI "day after." That tells you two things. The banks think the AI buildout is big enough to move the whole economy, and they have no idea which direction. Planning for failure is how you earn the right to bet on success. axios.com/2026/10/23/ai-cata…
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Doug Mohney retweeted
You're right, @elonmusk. Someone has grown very rich off money flowing from Ukraine. I work in Starlink supply to Ukraine, so I see these numbers firsthand. Ukrainians bought 117,000 terminals in September alone (~$42M), plus monthly subscriptions for each one. And that's just official commercial imports. Not counting government contracts, donor-funded deliveries, direct orders from your website or grey imports. No laundry machines needed. It goes straight to SpaceX.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people. The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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Artemis IV mission overview slide:
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And here's the first infographic of Blue Origin's Blue Moon landing! It will require 3 transfer stage launches.
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Doug Mohney retweeted
Payload deployment confirmed from Electron - all three HAWK satellites for @hawkeye360 are now on orbit 🛰️🛰️🛰️
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Doug Mohney retweeted
Rocket Lab Space Structures Complex Update October 23, 2026 Middle River, Maryland Moving day? It appears Rocket Lab is preparing to load hardware for transport to Wallops! We have a crane at the lagoon! The empty cradle appears to have been wrapped. Stay tuned! @NASASpaceflight – at Essex, MD
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Doug Mohney retweeted
ICEYE and @Nokia announced today a partnership with The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communications. ICEYE has supported Ukraine since 2022 and delivers sovereign space capability at speed. This builds on that. Read more: hubs.li/Q04C3bj-0
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Doug Mohney retweeted
Just now, on the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel call, member Charlie Precourt said the latest estimate for refuelings needed to support a Starship landing on the Moon is "around 22" launches.
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scoop: SpaceX declined to offer Falcon for three future Space Force missions, and no other company offered to fly them either — an early sign of the launch crunch politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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Want to know what SpaceX actually believes? Skip the speeches. Check the capex. Last quarter the company spent $19.59 billion on capital projects. $16.44 billion of it, 84 cents per dollar, went to AI data centers. Power, cooling, compute, software buys. Q4 guidance: another $35 to $40 billion of the same. The moon city would need closed-loop life support, habitat construction, radiation shielding, resource extraction on the lunar surface, agriculture in a dome. Whole fields of engineering that barely exist today. None of that is getting built. No program, no budget line, nothing. Musk can promise anything on an earnings call. Money only goes where belief is. And every capital dollar at SpaceX says the future is a server rack in Texas. The fanboys can keep quoting the moon speech but the checkbook shows otherwise.
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Doug Mohney retweeted
BREAKING: The first indication of @BlueOrigin's New Glenn Return-To-Flight is here... December 28, 2026. The CADENA air traffic advisory lists this mission as "New Glenn 4.1". The rocket which exploded was "New Glenn-4". As ever, these dates are extremely provisional, and should be taken with a pinch of salt until more concrete information is released. 📷 @thenasaman/@NASASpaceflight
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