Starlink is now active on more than 1,000 planes around the world! Tens of millions of passengers now have access to high-speed, low-latency internet from gate to gate 🛰️✈️

Cc Dr. John Barentine FRAS

$ASTS finally received their grant for FM-1, clearing the way for a potential end of August launch (assuming NISAR doesn't slip again). apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.htm….

So who is Starlink's new SCS partner (presumably in Asia-Pacific, given who submitted it) that they want to keep confidential?

🆕 Dave Limp is now a follower of @secduffy (🤖❓: does this make sense?)

Tim Farrar Closer to home. Canada iphoneincanada.ca/2025/07/11/rog… Tough cell without national coverage though.

Not the headline I'd pick, but new details on Starlink finances are interesting wsj.com/tech/elon-musk…

🇯🇵🇪🇺 Japan coming to the rescue of IRIS²? A draft agreement for the Japan-EU summit on July 23 stipulates that the two sides would build a joint satellite constellation to reduce reliance on US companies like SpaceX. H/T 🇳🇬Inemesit Affia 07037900827................🇳🇬 asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aeros…

Scoop - SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion into Elon Musk's xAI -- extending a long history of Musk using his space company to prop up his other businesses wsj.com/tech/spacex-to…

This explains the discrepancy between Bloomberg reporting that SpaceX was planning a primary raise and the WSJ reporting that SpaceX had $3B of cash on hand "recently"

Joe Morrison Scott Pace introduced a taxonomy of “merchants”and “guardians”. I add “visionaries”, and “charlatans”. The fun part is you can’t tell which, and maybe they swap flavors like neutrinos.

Rent free LOL...

Pierre Lionnet and Tim Farrar can be cranky but you know they’re truth seeking and do not play favorites. Spend the time watching history repeat itself enough, and you might wind up a little less accommodating, too.

I have huge respect for Pierre. While I’m an optimist by instinct, I’ll take the disciplined thinking and realism of analysts like Pierre over the hockey-stick dreamers any day. We’re at a stage in the industry where truth-seekers do far more good than the hype-cycle crowd.