Anthony Monaghan

[Jack Kuhr @JackKuhr]

We finally get a Blue Origin valuation: $130B

The company is raising $10B (including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos), per NYT. First outside capital for the 25-year-old rocket biz.

https://t.co/XyHjeCldCF

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions.

• ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload capacity on Starship.

• First mission is targeted to launch as early as 2030 through ispace’s new Lunar Access Integration service.

• The service is designed to make it easier for companies, governments, and research organizations to send payloads to the Moon.

• Customers can fly payloads ranging from a few kilograms up to 500 kg on shared Starship missions.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer the new Lunar Access Integration service utilizing Starship’s payload space… High-capacity, relatively low-cost lunar transport… is essential to realizing the sustainable lunar economy that ispace aims to create.”

— ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

We're excited to announce @kevinweil has joined our board of directors. He brings deep product leadership experience as we move closer to launch and grow the company. Welcome to Stoke, Kevin! https://t.co/8LAIfAzryG

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

He's just teasing ppl. The du Pont family member linked to LSD research is Marcella Miller du Pont (from the prominent du Pont chemical/industrial family). She participated in séances and experiments at Andrija Puharich’s Round Table Foundation in Maine in the early 1950s. Puharich (who had U.S. Army/intelligence ties) used LSD on research subjects for parapsychology and consciousness studies.

And don't forget about William Mellon Hitchcock (often called Billy Hitchcock or William Hitchcock). He was a member of the wealthy Mellon family (heirs to the Mellon banking and industrial fortune, not the du Pont family). Along with his siblings Peggy and Tommy Hitchcock, he owned a large 64-room mansion/estate in Millbrook, New York.

From 1963 to 1968, they allowed Timothy Leary and his psychedelic research group to live and work there. The estate became a major hub for LSD experiments, group sessions, and the early psychedelic movement. Hitchcock and his siblings were familiar with Leary and provided financial and logistical support for these activities. LSD was produced and used extensively on the property.

All done with the CIA.

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

Russian Paradox | @sjkokinda @ColonelTowner @the_irascible (TP... https://t.co/JInUpQw5MT

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump arrives in Ankara, Turkey and is welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of NATO Summit.

America is back on the world stage. 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Falcon delivers 81 satellites to orbit

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We’re gonna need a bigger rocket!

(Starship)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches the 17th Transporter rideshare mission and delivers 81 payloads to orbit

[EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言 @EMBurlingame]

Praetorians in government and business and finance give monopolies to build up oligarchs. With the caveat, that the same oligarchs leave the greater part of their wealth in foundations, rather than bequeath to their descendants. Such the Praetorians have access to that vast fortune that is forever after virtually untouchable. And should any oligarch decide, instead, to bequeath to their children or to seek to make such fortune in foundation untouchable by the Praetorians, well, either they or someone(s) very close to them are murdered to ensure that doesn't happen.

There is also, a second part, to this tale. Which is the use of certain families who act as executors of the trusts the foundations obtain their capital from...

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Rideshare deployment sequence complete

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

Separation confirmed!

All four ICEYE satellites have successfully separated from the Falcon 9 rocket and early orbit operations are now underway.

Video: @SpaceX

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Rideshare deployment sequence has begun

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: 44 airlines are now committed to Starlink or have publicly announced plans to add it.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 landing confirmed

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch the Transporter-17 mission to orbit https://t.co/cE0M5c8dcI

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Transporter-17!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Less than one hour until Falcon 9’s launch of the Transporter-17 mission. Liftoff is targeted for 12:12 a.m. PT. The live webcast will begin about 15 minutes ahead of launch → https://t.co/EZqlC8BAcs

[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

TESLA: It is being reported that Tesla has leased a 682k sq ft industrial building #6 in Phase 2 of the Austin Hills Commerce Center at 1801 Decker Lake Road in Austin.

The building is located about five miles from Giga Texas and is expected to be completed in January 2027. The developer is the Sansone Group in partnership with Principal Asset Management.

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