🇺🇸 Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of #ElonMusk, #SpaceX After #Ukraine Revelations

Warren calls on #Pentagon to look into decision over attack

#Musk, other tech chiefs will meet with senators on Wednesday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-11/elizabeth-warren-demands-probes-of-elon-musk-spacex-after-ukraine-revelations

Telestat, SpaceX announce agreement to launch satellites

> Satellite operator Telestat announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with SpaceX to carry 18 of its Lightspeed satellites into low Earth orbit starting in 2026.

> #Telestat's satellite constellation, which will provide secured multi-Gbps data link connectivity for enterprise and government users, will be deployed by #SpaceX over the course of 14 launches, a statement from the satellite company said
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/09/11/Telestat-SpaceX-satellite/5861694449781/

By the way, the team in charge of the mishap investigation (the team that wrote, tracked and communicated action status to the #FAA) includes many extremely experienced members of the #SpaceX Flight Reliability team. Current VP: Bill Gerstenmaier. Maybe you’ve heard of him.

https://x.com/spaceabhi/status/1700903406599393472?s=46

You know what time it is!? Yes! this has been a darn fun AND weird #SpaceX week my friends.

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#Musk would have had a completely different narrative if DoD would have acquired the #Starlink for #Ukraine as he originally hoped. The involvement in a major war would have been no problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-drones.html #SpaceX

Elon Musk is serious about enabling humanity to become multiplanetary. This 2014 interview (link below) is the best resource to capture his thoughts on this subject. He still reaffirms this goal today.

I'm not against colonization of Mars or building a starship that could carry and sustain a population. It actually sounds cool. But it seems to beg the question of what we are here for in the first place. Without agreement on that, you can end up in a dangerous place.

People who think like Musk seem to think the purpose of existing is just to exist. We're conscious at a high level, so we have to be sure that we as a species go on being conscious. And if that's our primary purpose, then you can do all kinds of terrible things in service of that goal: "For the greater good ..."

For Musk in particular, I think it allows himself to excuse his own behavior, such as fathering nearly a dozen children by multiple women. It's sort of a weird rationalization where he can think of himself as a virtuous person because he's pro-human.

It all reminds me of Professor Weston, the antagonist in the first two parts of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. He was willing to sacrifice others (and admittedly, himself) in service of the goal of bringing humanity to other planets. Even in 1938 (publication of Out of the Silent Planet), Lewis anticipated that people like Musk would come along. He tried to expose the hubris of that ideology and type of evil that it would lead to.

Has anyone else been struck by the parallels between the character Weston and our real-life Musk?

https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-puts-his-case-for-a-multi-planet-civilisation

#cslewis #outofthesilentplanet #perelandra #multiplanetary #musk #spacex

In 📆 2014, #NASA selected #Boeing and #SpaceX for the CCtCap contracts. Under the contract, Boeing received $4.2 billion 💰💰💰💰, and SpaceX received $2.6 💰💰 billion. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/starliner-update/

#Starliner #CrewDragon

#Reuters 📆 September 8, 2023 The #FAA probe's closure puts #SpaceX one step closer to getting #Starship in #space 🚀 for the first time https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-faa-closes-probe-into-spacexs-april-starship-test-launch-2023-09-08/

FAA side. #SpaceX will need to re-apply once mitigation certified: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-closes-spacex-starship-mishap-investigation

This has similarities to at least one N1 launch failure, if you've read Chertok on the matter:

"During ascent, the vehicle sustained fires from leaking propellant in the aft end of the Super Heavy booster, which eventually severed connection with the vehicle’s primary flight computer. This led to a loss of communications to the majority of booster engines and, ultimately, control..."

https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html #Space #Safety #SpaceX #Russia

Ich will ja niemand auf unanständige Ideen bringen, aber in #Russland wäre ein abtrünniger #Oligarch, der mit feindlichen Regierungen gemeinsame Sache macht, längst vom #Balkon gefallen.
#Musk #SpaceX #PutinKnecht
https://www.fr.de/politik/ukraine-krieg-krim-angriff-elon-musk-starlink-spacex-atom-angst-selenskyj-putin-russland-news-92507437.html

Elon Moscow RuZZian cock-sucker

#ElonMoscow #ElonMuck #ElonRuzzian #Pig #Twitter #x #slavaukraїni #PutinWarCriminal #PedoPutin #PutinPuppet #Tesla #SpaceX #traitor #motherfucker ☠️🤡☠️

Well isn’t this special:
“Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
#Elmo #UkraineRussiaWar #russianinvasion #starlink #twitter #spaceX #antisemite_in_chief

📆 2013 With small teams and far lower overhead, #SpaceX was able to go from incorporation to first #spaceflight in six years. #LaunchCost are projected to run 40 to 60 percent less 📉 than what’s being charged today https://hbr.org/2013/04/what-spacex-can-teach-us-about

#ElonMoscow #ElonMuck #elonmoscow #TwitterDiscrimination #Twitter #x merd #slavaukraїni #PutinWarCriminal #PedoPutin #PutinPuppet #Tesla #SpaceX #TraitorsToDemocracy

Did Elon Musk loan money from SpaceX to pay for Twitter?

> SpaceX approved the $1 billion loan, which was backed by some of Musk's SpaceX stock, in October and Musk drew all of it down the same month, according to the report, citing documents. Musk took ownership of Twitter in October.

> The loan is latest in a series of examples of how the world’s richest man raises funds from his own companies to finance his wide array of endeavours.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/06/did-elon-musk-loan-money-from-spacex-to-pay-for-twitter #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Twitter

#SpaceX stacks ship 25 on booster 9 🚀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZqaA17T4eI

#Starship

So #Musk is moving all #SpaceX launch streams to #Twitter /#X, if you didn’t think he was a risk to national security — Why should people *have* to use an unstable and allegedly N*zi-platforming website to see mostly #NASA missions? He is obviously negatively impacting SpaceX and NASA.

Waiting patiently to see SpaceX be nationalized at this point. And no, I will not be rejoining that hellhole to see streams. Neither should you.

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SpaceX Crew-6 NASA mission splashes down off Florida after ISS stay ends

> The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour pierced the atmosphere at 17,000 mph, its heat shield enduring temperatures hotter than 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the course of an hour, the capsule eventually slowed to a leisurely 15 mph under a canopy of parachutes with a gentle touchdown in the Atlantic Ocean off Jacksonville, Fla.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197481976/spacex-nasa-crew-6-iss-returns-earth-splashdown #NASA #SpaceX #ISS