Yep, He's One Of Them! Elon Musk & SpaceX Are Helping US Intelligence Build World's Largest Spy Satellite Network (Video)

Why are so many freedom loving, privacy aware people using a military contractor’s satellite service, and turning a blind eye to the surveillance grid he is co-creating with the U.S. military and intelligence?

So many think that Elon Musk, as well as a lot of these Trump appointees, are somehow real patriots with your best interests at heart.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  They are there to enrich themselves and their corporate fascist buddies and Elon Musk is no different as he and his SpaceX company are now aiding the lawless US intelligence community, which alluring you into his network, Starlink.  Who do you think this spy network will be spying on?  That’s right, you!

Derrick Broze reports at The Last American Vagabond:

On Monday, former Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul told his audience on Twitter/X that due to an “internet outage in our area” he would not broadcast his daily live broadcast, The Ron Paul Liberty Report.

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Elon Musk, the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Twitter, responded to Paul, stating, “You should get Starlink”. Finally, Paul asked, “That sounds like a great idea! How much does it cost?”

Starlink is what is known as a satellite internet constellation which is operated by Starlink Services, an international telecommunications company that is wholly owned by Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX. Starlink satellites were first launched by SpaceX in 2019, and now reportedly provide internet access to people in more than 100 countries. They have become increasingly popular because of their ease of setup and relatively low cost.

The most recent numbers on Starlink satellites say the satellite constellation consists of more than 7,000 small satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceX has plans for 12,000 satellites over the coming years. Starlink is said to have more than 4 million worldwide subscribers.

Ron Paul obviously knew what Starlink was, and he might even be aware that Starlink has been a vital part of SpaceX’s success. However, what Ron Paul and most of the general public might not know is that SpaceX has become a key partner of the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus, and is helping them build a massive surveillance grid.

SpaceX, Starshield, and the Military-Industrial-CompleX

In September 2023, Bloomberg reported that SpaceX had received its first contract from the US Space Force to “provide customized satellite communications for the military” under SpaceX’s new “Starshield” program. The move, Bloomberg noted, would “extend” Elon Musk’s role as a “defense contractor”.

Starshield will offer service to the military for one year using SpaceX’s existing Starlink satellites. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told Bloomberg that the contract “provides for Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related services.”

That is to say, the U.S. military and intelligence will be piggybacking off the Starlink satellites which are being sold to the average person as a convenient and fast way to access the internet.

The pursuit of military contracts is not a new feature of SpaceX’s business model. In 2002 it was reported that SpaceX had contracted with an undisclosed U.S. intelligence customer. More recently, Musk’s Starlink contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense for an undisclosed amount to provide Starlink communication to the Ukrainian military.

The official website for Starshield says the program is aimed at providing satellites to customers for processing encrypted communications, as well as capturing data about the Earth. Starshield also offers “satellites buses” for the “most demanding customer payload missions”.

While little else was known about the Starshield program at the time of its announcement, the public has learned more details about the program.

In February 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported on the existence of yet another contract between SpaceX and the U.S. government. The previously unknown 2021 contract was worth a whopping $1.8 billion, and related to the secretive Starshield satellite constellation. The U.S. government agency contracting with SpaceX was unlisted in the documents viewed by the WSJ.

“The size and secrecy of the agreement illustrate a growing interdependence between SpaceX—a dominant force in the space industry—and the national-security establishment,” the WSJ noted.

The WSJ also reported that Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, acknowledged there was “very good collaboration between the intelligence community and SpaceX”.

In March, Reuters spoke to five sources with inside knowledge of a classified contract between SpaceX and an undisclosed U.S. intelligence agency. According to these sources, SpaceX is building a network of spy satellites with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as part of the previously reported $1.8 billion contract.

These same sources told Reuters that if the program is successful it would “significantly advance” the U.S. government and military ability to rapidly find targets “almost anywhere” on the planet.

By April the report appeared to be confirmed after it was announced that SpaceX would partner with long time military contractor Northrop Grumman on the classified spy satellite system. The project was apparently already capturing high-resolution pictures of the planet, according to “people familiar with the program” who spoke with Reuters. These same sources claimed the classified project was being developed by the National Reconnaissance Office.

The National Reconnaissance Office and SpaceX

The NRO is an intelligence agency within the U.S Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites for the government. The agency was founded in 1961 but its existence was classified secret until 1992.

 

National Reconnaissance Office history timeline

The NRO provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

In May, SpaceX carried out its first mission to help the NRO launch satellites into space. The headline “SpaceX launches first batch of new spy satellites for NRO” tells you everything you need to know. The number of satellites launched into orbit by the NRO and SpaceX were not disclosed to the public.

 

While the public has been watching with joy and awe as Elon Musk and SpaceX bring America into the “Space Race” of the next generation, Musk is actually launching spy satellites aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.

“This mission is the first launch of the NRO’s proliferated systems featuring responsive collection and rapid data delivery. NROL-146 represents the first launch of an operational system following demonstrations in recent years to verify cost and performance,” the NRO said.

The third batch of satellites for the NRO were launched by SpaceX in September. Once again, the NRO’s satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The latest partnership between SpaceX and the NRO came in October when the company was awarded contracts for nine launches under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program. The $733.5 million contract was for seven missions for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and two for the NRO which were projected to launch in late 2025 and 2026.

Some supporters of Musk might argue that he is simply being a smart businessman and cashing in on U.S. government money while remaining agnostic about how the technology he supplies is deployed. Not only is such an excuse a cop-out, and an attempt at absolving Musk and his cohorts of personal responsibility, it is utterly ignorant to deny the danger in supplying the world’s largest military with an even greater ability to spy on the world.

Take a look at the words of Christopher Scolese, the Director of the NRO, to understand the danger posed by Starshield. Scolese reports directly to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense.

In October, Scolese spoke at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies detailing how the NRO is planning to use the satellites provided by businesses like SpaceX.

“From last June to December of this year, we’ll have probably launched 100 satellites. So we are going from the demo phase to the operational phase, where we’re really going to be able to start testing all of this stuff out in a more operational way,” Scolese said at the time.

 

“NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature. Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide,” says Karen Furgerson, a spokesperson for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). “‘Nothing is beyond our reach’ defines this mission and the value it brings to our nation and the warfighters it supports, who serve valiently all over the globe, protecting our nation.”

Needless to say, the logo and the statement was perceived as insensitive and “tone deaf” following the Snowden leaks which were released only months earlier.

Elon Musk is a Technocrat Not a Hero

With a full understanding of the history of the National Reconnaissance Office, the Starshield program, and the extensive relationship between SpaceX and the military-intelligence networks we can clearly state that Elon Musk is a tool for the Military-Industrial-Complex. Even further, Elon Musk is a Technocrat, a proponent of Technocracy, a system wherein management of governments is handled by technical experts, often involving technology-focused solutions.

Early proponents of Technocracy claimed that the concept would lead to better management of resources and the protection of the planet. However, this system of governance by technological experts and their technology would also involve a loss of privacy, as well as centralization of power and the management of all human behavior. Although the term appears to have been largely forgotten, the technocratic philosophy and influence can be seen everywhere in our modern digital world.

When we examine the world of 2024 we clearly see the signs of technocratic influence. For example, we can see this influence in the wealthiest companies and most influential CEOs. These individuals are running companies that have amassed large amounts of financial wealth, as well as unfathomable amounts of digital data on all of their customers.

From Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, lesser known names at Google and Apple, and, of course, Elon Musk of Tesla/SpaceX/Twitter — we can see the technocratic ideology. In fact, Elon Musk has assigned himself the title of “technoking” at Tesla, a term similar to the Technocrat’s “Technate King”.

These men and their colleagues in various technological industries wield immense power through their companies, wealth, and cultural influence. These individuals have enough money, resources, and connections to shape elections, geoengineer the climate, and cause dips in the stock market, to name a few examples. They are the technocrat class of 2024.

Elon Musk is perhaps the most infamous technocrat who is now working directly with President-Elect Trump. He has advocated for implanting chips in human brains, transhumanism, turning Twitter into an “everything in one app” similar to China’s WeChat, merging with AI, and is now working directly with the U.S. military and intelligence to develop a classified spy satellite network.

What will it take to educate individuals who profess to love freedom and value privacy to reject Musk’s Starlink?

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media