S21 Ep111: Supernatural News/Parashare: Space Suits, Skydiving Survivors, & Simian Smackdowns Edition w/Travis Thorpe(Combat Rev)

Um, SpaceX has just launched a mysterious classified mission for the US Space Force, and here is what we're speculating here on what is going on.

Again, only speculation.

And I know you and I talk off air, and we speculated, but we're not gonna get into that, um, because that's kinda zip your lip and throw the key type stuff.

Um, so this week, SpaceX launched the USSF-153, a classified US Space Force mission, carrying a mysterious payload into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, highlighting the growing intersection between commercial spaceflight and US national security operations.

In the analysis that I'm reading, it says they're looking at what we currently know about the highly secretive USSF-153 mission, how details surrounding its flight path may offer clues that classified satellites, potentially based on SpaceX's Starshield platform, were aboard, and how the mission comes amid growing concerns about an emerging era of military competition and potential conflict in Earth's orbit, and why the launch represents another milestone for SpaceX as reusable commercial rockets play an increasingly important role in national security space missions.

Now, we won't probably go over a lot of that.

We might hit the highlights here and, uh, go from there, 'cause this is a pretty in- intense article.

I may even post it so you guys can read it in full, um, 'cause it's kind of intense here.

But I think you know where we're going here, Rev.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs] Um, so SpaceX put out a statement.

And, uh, the statement here, let's see, was, "SpaceX ongoing work with the Department of Defense and other partners demonstrates our ability to provide in space and on ground capability at scale." Um, so SpaceX launches this classified mission.

The mission officially, uh, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at around 11:37 AM Eastern Time on Thursday.

Beyond that, little else is known about what exactly the classified payload carried aboard the Falcon 9.

Here's what, uh, the debrief knew about the morning's secretive launch and how it may be related to other recent developments involving the growing use of Earth's orbit In the advancement of US national security objectives.

And The Debrief is pretty good about getting in there and finding out what they can at the time.

They don't always, uh, let's say nail it accurately, but they get in the ballpark.

Uh, according to the company's website, the USSF-153 mission marks the 27th flight for the first stage SpaceX rocket booster supporting this mission.

So this isn't the first time they've done it.

They've gone up quite a bit and, uh...

So 27 flights, I mean, this is a pretty regular thing, Riv.

Yes.

Yes, it is.

And, uh, you know, things to take into mind is, you know, each flight could be a thing or each flight could be parts of a thing.