Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission, nails landing | 9:16
VideoFromSpace | 2.16M subscribers | 65,801 views | October 15, 2026
Posted on 10/16/2026 8:31:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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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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
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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.
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.
2025?
If it was classified we wouldn’t know it launched.... 🚀
It’s about 150Mb/second, which is more than enough for multiple streaming devices, let alone what we use it for, which is basically text.
I bought a mesh router that goes with it, can get service all through a location. In fact, I’m on it now.
Literally waiting for our company man to get off the rig floor so I can yell at him for going over AFE so bad.
Everybody is skittering around. Always bad news when you skip the COO and get the bossman on location.
Great to hear practical praise on how Starlink is helping!
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