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Gonna try to start using Bluesky more! Follow me @13ericralph31.bsky.social (bsky.app/profile/13ericralph…) if you're already over there :D
Eric Ralph retweeted
If you work at JSOC or the CIA, take a good look at these fishermen you tried to kill. Why did you try to kill them? Is it because you are stupid, bad people who lack decency and morals? Yes, definitely. But also because your intel is dogshit and AI is just making it worse.
Los tripulantes de la última embarcación interceptada por EE. UU. "don Ruffo" con la anuencia de Ecuador, han sido declarados inocentes, al igual que los tripulantes de las demás embarcaciones sometidos a procesos penales.
Esto evidencia las mentiras de Reimberg y Loffredo: nunca hubo informes de inteligencia que sustentaran sus acusaciones. Los pescadores de Manta fueron víctimas de graves violaciones de DD. HH. que podrían constituir crímenes de lesa humanidad.
Gran defensa del Abg. Juan Alvea de Manta
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Free newsletter: Anthropic’s S-1 uses an anomalous quarter to con investors into becoming its exit liquidity, and explicitly states that its costs will grow aggressively as margins decline. Its $430bn in non-cancellable contracts are yet to start hitting.
wheresyoured.at/exit-liquidi…
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With a 20.6kW burn, we just shattered the record for highest Hall thruster burn ever completed on orbit – four times more powerful than any thruster that has ever flown in space.
And that’s just the beginning. We’re continuing to test and refine our in-house, custom-designed avionics and propulsion systems for next year’s launches. Below, our gimbal moves our thruster while it fires in our vacuum chamber. Of course, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to draw our Dyson sphere logo, which represents the abundant space future that we’re aiming for as we push the bounds of what’s possible in space.
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Starship 42 performing a full duration 6 engine static fire test ahead of upcoming Starship flight 15.
10/27/26
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Haven-1’s 15 composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) hold thruster propellant, breathing oxygen, and cabin pressure gas. The orange patches on the propellant tanks are Kapton heaters for in-orbit mass gauging and deorbit. Next up: integration on Haven-1.
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Today we're excited to announce we have upgraded our 4th launch with our partners at @SpaceX to a dedicated mission, launching in 2028.
Given increased customer demand --in particular from the sovereign and air-gapped network verticals-- we decided to increase the number of satellites we're launching to 6. This is the entire production run of our spacecraft Block 4.
Sovereign satellites, and specifically sovereign satellites in geosynchronous orbit, allow a country or enterprise to have their own dedicated comms satellite with a purpose built network deployed around it.
In this new world of cyber threats and super-intelligent agents in the hands of malicious actors, we're seeing more and more the desire to pull infrastructure off the public internet entirely with dedicated networks. It's the most effective way to shrink the attack surface. And it's where the world is headed.
As a result we've seen huge increase in demand for satellites that our customers can control and lock-down from a cybersecurity perspective. Something uniquely possible on a nation-state scale with a geosynchronous satellite.
We are pumped about this launch. And the best part? We’re going straight to 22,000 miles up, with a direct-inject to GEO using an Impulse Helios upper stage.
We are now seeing an insane amount of commercial and US government demand, and we’re only just getting started.
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Lot's happening this morning:
S43 returned to the production site after it's cryoproff campain.
B22 returned to the production site after it's static fire.
S42 is rolling out to Masseys for it's static fire. Behind S42 is a ship aft barrel with some tiles on it - idk what that is for.
Image Credit: @NASASpaceflight youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsL…
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Le programme lunaire habité chinois avance bien:
- Le module lunaire Lanyue devrait faire un vol d'essai (inhabité) dès 2028.
- La capsule Mengzhou a fait son test d'éjection à max-Q.
- La fusée LM-10 devrait voler dès 2027.
- Le scaphandre Wangyu n'est pas en retard pour 2029.
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Starship Ship 43 got quickly to work after arriving to Massey's undergoing multiple rounds of cryo testing over 10 hours during the afternoon and into the night.
@NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
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Lift!
B22 has been lifted onto the Pad 2 OLM in preparation for testing. Boca Chica beach closures have been posted for October 25th & 26th, 6am-6pm CT.
📸@NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
NASA after SpaceX "opts out" of offering Starship for Artemis contracts as soon as physically possibly because the TSLA merger debt interest is more than NASA's annual budget and it's more profitable to spend those 10-20 launches cramming LEO with slopsats >>>> 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
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No company is a charity, but given that NASA took a chance on SpaceX and saved them, it would be a nice gesture for one of the most valuable companies in the world to continue being a great partner to NASA.
Give a guarantee of human launch on Starship, and a timeline for standard Starship payload bay. These things would do a lot to ease people’s minds right now, and honestly it’s beneficial to SpaceX anyways. Just move it up a couple years earlier than you’d like and give it some lip service. Boo hoo
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High cadence launch needs high cadence testing. With more than 100 launches in backlog (and counting), we're building a new state-of-the-art test facility to accelerate static fire stack testing for Electron and HASTE rockets.
Check out the new test pad underway within our Propulsion Test Complex 🧵👇
