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Mar 12
Friday the 13th and 10,000 Starlink sats in orbit🔥
@SpaceX is targeting, weather permitting, double-header Falcon 9 launches from the East and West Coast to deploy 54 @Starlink satellites.
... one of these satellites will represent the first time SpaceX surpass 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit! 🔥
Mar 12
UPCOMING FALCON 9 @STARLINK MISSIONS (updated)🚀🛰
8 missions | 216 satellites 🔥
▪︎ Friday, Mch. 13 | Starlink Group 10-48 (29 sats) | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 5 a.m. ET
▪︎ Friday, Mch. 13 | Starlink Group 17-31 (25 sats) | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 2.58 a.m. PT
▪︎ Monday, Mch. 16 | Starlink Group 10-46 (29 sats) | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 5.49 a.m. ET
▪︎ Monday, Mch. 16 | Starlink Group 17-24 (25 sats) | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 6.37 p.m. PT
▪︎ Wednesday, Mch. 18 | Starlink Group 10-33 (29 sats) | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 5.57 a.m. ET
▪︎ Friday, Mch. 20 | Starlink Group 17-15 (25 sats) | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 1.48 p.m. PT
▪︎ Sunday, Mch. 22 | Starlink Group 10-62 (29 sats) | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 9.43 a.m. ET
▪︎ Monday, Mch. 23 | Starlink Group 17-17 (25 sats) | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 6.39 p.m. PT
source: SpaceX, NSF
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Brian Basson retweeted
Jun 13
South Africa had real space ambitions that dated back to the late 1950s.
The program was launched primarily through partnerships with NASA.
In the 1980s, while a young Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria, South Africa was on the absolute cusp of becoming a global space superpower.
The country possessed the Overberg Test Range, advanced rocket technology, and a first-world infrastructure built on precision engineering.
South Africa had the exact blueprint to stand among aerospace giants. Then, the ANC cadres took over.
Under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and a toxic ideological obsession, that entire world class infrastructure was systematically dismantled and run into the dirt.
They replaced meritocracy with political patronage, drove out elite engineering talent with restrictive racial mandates, and broke the power grid so badly that heavy manufacturing became impossible.
Instead of letting infrastructure rot, a functional South Africa would have expanded its historic NASA partnerships.
South Africa would have become the absolute go-to hub for tracking and communicating with global Mars missions, lunar landings, and deep space probes.
Jun 12
A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.
His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.
Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.
They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.
Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.
Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.
Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.
We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.
The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.
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Brian Basson retweeted
Elon Musk arrived in Canada in 1989 with $2,000 in his pocket
By 1992, he had moved to the U.S. to attend the University of Pennsylvania
On June 12th, 2026 his net worth surpassed $1 Trillion
Building multiple $ Billion and 2 x $ Trillion dollar companies to date
A shining example of what's possible when you dream big enough, and given the opportunity, that through sheer determination and hard work those dreams can become a reality
South Africa's loss became America's gain
Elon Musk understood that only America provided the opportunity and means to fulfill his dreams and ambitions -- one that is benefitting all of humanity
Next stop: humanity becoming a multi-planetary civilization 🚀🌌
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Upcoming @SpaceX Falcon 9 launches (updated): June 15-24 🚀
10 days | 6 missions (3 x @Starlink)
- Monday, June 15 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-54) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 7 a.m. PDT
- Wednesday, June 17 | BlueBird 8 to 10 | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 2.39 a.m. EDT
- Thursday, June 18 | NROL-179 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 1.54 a.m. PDT
- Saturday, June 20 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 2.39 a.m. EDT
- Saturday, June 20 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-28) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 7 a.m. PDT
- Wednesday, June 24 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-45) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 4 a.m. PDT
source: NSF, SpaceX
Jun 11
Upcoming @SpaceX Falcon 9 launches (updated): June 12-24 🚀
13 days | 7 missions (4 x @Starlink)
- Friday, June 12 | 29 Starlink (Group 10-54) satellites | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 8.27 a.m. EDT
- Monday, June 15 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-54) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 7 a.m. PDT
- Wednesday, June 17 | BlueBird 8 to 10 | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 2.39 a.m. EDT
- Thursday, June 18 | NROL-179 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 1.54 a.m. PDT
- Saturday, June 20 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 2.39 a.m. EDT
- Saturday, June 20 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-28) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 7 a.m. PDT
- Wednesday, June 24 | 24 Starlink (Group 17-45) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 4 a.m. PDT
source: NSF, SpaceX
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Starlink delivers high-speed internet from 30,000 feet 🛰️✈️
May 7
Starlink is amazing!!!
Can’t believe the speed!!!
On a United flight at the moment🤩
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Brian Basson retweeted
There's no point in SpaceX applying for a @Starlink 🇿🇦 South Africa entry -- at least not 'till the country's BEE laws is amended to make provision for equity-equivalent alternatives in the Communications sector, and that could still take years!
May 13
@Starlink 🇿🇦 South Africa entry update
Communications regulator, Icasa, has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA).
In a brief media statement on Wednesday, Icasa said it communicated its position to the Comms ministry and remained committed to advancing transformation in the sectors it regulates. But it set a clear limit on what it can do under the current law.
“While the amended ICT sector code must be applied in licensing qualification criteria, full alignment with all provisions of the code, including equity equivalent investment programmes, would require a legislative amendment to the current ECA,” Icasa said.
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Brian Basson retweeted
Jun 13
Great article, recommended read!
#1 Reason America Must Keep Developing Entrepreneurs Like Musk & Bezos
forbes.com/sites/dileeprao/2…
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The Neuralink Campus in the beautiful countryside of Del Valle, Texas. 6-13-2026
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Twitter employees that stayed at Twitter, worked hard, rebranded to X, merged with xAI, merged with SpaceX enjoying a incentive plan pool of almost $1B
Incredible. Y'all deserve it 🫶
SpaceX filed more filings with the SEC. They are reserving 300 million (!) shares for future grants! That is $48 billion at todays share price 🤯
They also shared more details on past incentive plans. (~$43B)
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Brian Basson retweeted
Mission alignment is incredibly misunderstood. For decades individual contributors were told they were making the world a better place when in reality they were just shipping better ads or social mind rot features. Eventually the idea of mission became meaningless, and the only way to get the best and hardest work was to raise TC higher and higher.
Meanwhile at SpaceX, there were a few thousand people working seemingly impossible hours on very hard technical and manufacturing challenges for two decades. The comp was fine but every single one was there for the mission.
It feels different when you see/speak to people who have found their mission.
Mission matters. And when aligned well it can create massive outcomes (financial and otherwise) for everyone. Doing something that matters is powerful.
I’m just getting home after two days at Starbase
It is impossible to put into words the work ethic and mission orientation of the team at @SpaceX
Even on IPO day they launched a rocket, were doing engineering stand ups and welding new super structures
They’re doing this for the betterment of humanity
There’s nothing else like it
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Brian Basson retweeted
If you love them, make sure they’re in a Tesla
FSD might have just saved me from a head on collision.
My Tesla was taking evasive action before I even saw the danger.
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Brian Basson retweeted
5% of $1 trillion is $50 billion. That is $146 per American. And let’s be real, you would waste that money on the dumbest shit we’ve ever heard of. What difference is $50 billion going to make when you’re already collecting $5 trillion in revenue and not providing free college?
Now, how much wealth creation would Americans lose out on from forcing Elon Musk to sell 5% of SpaceX per year? Billions? Trillions? It is a massive net negative.
Looters like Ro want to destroy this country. We can’t let him stay in office.
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.
And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!
You don't think that's worth it?
Community note
5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only.
That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students.
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i…
bestcolleges.com/research/colle…
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Congrats to @elonmusk and @SpaceX on the largest IPO in history. Tens of thousands worked to tackle some of the hardest engineering problems imaginable, revolutionizing an industry in service of their nation and humanity, are now fully realizing the American Dream🇺🇸
May this moment spark many more companies like it across the domains of the future, unlocking new capabilities and prosperity for those who dare to dream.
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Starlink usage is absolutely exploding
Apptopia’s PR Director Adam Blacker notes that growth in app downloads and monthly active users has been “really accelerating” in recent months
The trajectory is wild:
• Q2 2026: On pace for 3.8M downloads (more than doubling last year's 1.8M)
• Q1 2026: 2.78M
• Q4 2025: 2.6M
Downloads are consistently hitting new monthly highs, and June is tracking even higher
From rural areas and disaster zones to maritime, aviation, and the upcoming Direct-to-Cell global rollout……Starlink is cementing itself as the most vital infrastructure on Earth right now
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Starship is a very big rocket
Jun 12
SpaceX is a company whose mission is *axiomatically* the love of humanity
To extend the light of consciousness
The power of this kind of love is hard to quantify but clearly makes the impossible far more probable.
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