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Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission, nails landing [9:16]
YouTube ^ | October 15, 2026 | VideoFromSpace

Posted on 10/16/2026 8:31:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission, nails landing | 9:16Β 
VideoFromSpace | 2.16M subscribers | 65,801 views | October 15, 2026
Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission, nails landing | 9:16 | VideoFromSpace | 2.16M subscribers | 65,801 views | October 15, 2026

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; spaceforce; spacex; usaf; ussf; ussf481
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the USSF-481 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 15, 2025. Credit: SpaceX

1 posted on 10/16/2026 8:31:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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2 posted on 10/16/2026 8:32:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Mildly off topic, but we’ve been equipping our fleet trucks with Starlink. It’s amazing.

You can be in the middle of nowhere oilfield, nary a cell tower on the horizon, and have great service.

Cheaper than cell, too.

We’re not even bothering to put the big cell boosters on our trucks anymore. Cost 2X the price for 1/10 the usefulness.


3 posted on 10/16/2026 8:38:25 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: SunkenCiv


4 posted on 10/16/2026 9:26:36 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: MeanWestTexan

I don’t doubt it. I’m waiting for the next-gen, I’ve got alleged fiber here (I watched the installation) that sometimes crawls, probably it’s really running off a coax multicoupler somewhere up the line.

Recently, there was an ad on YouTube showing a ranch in, hmm, I think Wyoming, that’s all that’s available, and the service is great. And it’s cheap. And the ad was better than the blizzard of election ads that have covered YouTube, practically everything I happen to watch.


5 posted on 10/16/2026 9:35:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

2025?


6 posted on 10/16/2026 10:00:49 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SunkenCiv

If it was classified we wouldn’t know it launched.... πŸš€


7 posted on 10/16/2026 11:14:27 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
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