Sounds like it’s time for Canada to withdraw from the NORAD agreement
October 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Sounds like it’s time for Canada to withdraw from the NORAD agreement
CelesTrak has GP data for 1 object from the launch (2026-226) of Crew Dragon 13 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Oct 1 at 1510 UTC: www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces.... See more at: www.nasa.gov/mission/nasa.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Now docked.
October 2, 2026 at 5:46 PM
CelesTrak has GP data for 1 object from the launch (2026-226) of Crew Dragon 13 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Oct 1 at 1510 UTC: www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces.... See more at: www.nasa.gov/mission/nasa.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Now docked.
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06/2024-12/2024
Non auth 🛰 in airspace
during 🇺🇸 Elections which utilized 🛰
reported crashing after election
Source: Reuters verified 11/2024
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NORAD
Both reported logs
06/2024-12/2024
Non auth 🛰 in airspace
during 🇺🇸 Elections which utilized 🛰
reported crashing after election
Source: Reuters verified 11/2024
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October 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
🇺🇸National Reconnaissance office
NORAD
Both reported logs
06/2024-12/2024
Non auth 🛰 in airspace
during 🇺🇸 Elections which utilized 🛰
reported crashing after election
Source: Reuters verified 11/2024
@natoact.bsky.social
@apnews.com
@politico.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
🌿🇺🇸🌿
GOD Bless America
NORAD
Both reported logs
06/2024-12/2024
Non auth 🛰 in airspace
during 🇺🇸 Elections which utilized 🛰
reported crashing after election
Source: Reuters verified 11/2024
@natoact.bsky.social
@apnews.com
@politico.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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GOD Bless America
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October 2, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Reagan talked of Star Wars and domes.
Dotard talks like radar and interceptors could eliminate all threats.
But NORAD, weather radar, and other advance warning systems are defunded?
Half a concept can't fly far in that brick head until it hits something stupid..
Dotard talks like radar and interceptors could eliminate all threats.
But NORAD, weather radar, and other advance warning systems are defunded?
Half a concept can't fly far in that brick head until it hits something stupid..
October 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Reagan talked of Star Wars and domes.
Dotard talks like radar and interceptors could eliminate all threats.
But NORAD, weather radar, and other advance warning systems are defunded?
Half a concept can't fly far in that brick head until it hits something stupid..
Dotard talks like radar and interceptors could eliminate all threats.
But NORAD, weather radar, and other advance warning systems are defunded?
Half a concept can't fly far in that brick head until it hits something stupid..
CelesTrak has post-deployment SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:32:00.103 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 69 satellites occurred 2026-10-01 19:26:17.523 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:37:10.623 UTC.
October 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
CelesTrak has post-deployment SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:32:00.103 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 69 satellites occurred 2026-10-01 19:26:17.523 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:37:10.623 UTC.
the middle powers with a bit of a quandary. The backbone of NATO has been US defense spending on Five Eyes, NORAD and satellites, specifically for intelligent gathering and early threat detection.
Moving forward, these capabilities are going to be either suspect and unreliable or (worst case)
Moving forward, these capabilities are going to be either suspect and unreliable or (worst case)
October 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
the middle powers with a bit of a quandary. The backbone of NATO has been US defense spending on Five Eyes, NORAD and satellites, specifically for intelligent gathering and early threat detection.
Moving forward, these capabilities are going to be either suspect and unreliable or (worst case)
Moving forward, these capabilities are going to be either suspect and unreliable or (worst case)
Skynet or WHOPR style deciding to shoot is right out, AI in NORAD saying it detects launches that don't exist runs into other systems saying "nope don't see a thing."
October 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Skynet or WHOPR style deciding to shoot is right out, AI in NORAD saying it detects launches that don't exist runs into other systems saying "nope don't see a thing."
Do you think Cyberdyne was constantly informing people that Skynet in beta kept saying “well I’d blow you up and if that didn’t do the job then id launch skeletal deathbots,” and whoowhee sure hope we buff that out before replacing NORAD?
October 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Do you think Cyberdyne was constantly informing people that Skynet in beta kept saying “well I’d blow you up and if that didn’t do the job then id launch skeletal deathbots,” and whoowhee sure hope we buff that out before replacing NORAD?
Google's Project Suncatcher sends 4 Trillium TPUs to orbit on SpaceX Transporter-18, NET 1 Oct 18:18 UTC. Already up: Starcloud-1 with an NVIDIA H100 (NORAD 66303, ~495-503 km). We track 14 orbital-compute projects from 11 companies, every row sourced. API + MCP, 100 free calls/day.
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Google's Project Suncatcher sends 4 Trillium TPUs to orbit on SpaceX Transporter-18, NET 1 Oct 18:18 UTC. Already up: Starcloud-1 with an NVIDIA H100 (NORAD 66303, ~495-503 km). We track 14 orbital-compute projects from 11 companies, every row sourced. API + MCP, 100 free calls/day.
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October 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Google's Project Suncatcher sends 4 Trillium TPUs to orbit on SpaceX Transporter-18, NET 1 Oct 18:18 UTC. Already up: Starcloud-1 with an NVIDIA H100 (NORAD 66303, ~495-503 km). We track 14 orbital-compute projects from 11 companies, every row sourced. API + MCP, 100 free calls/day.
The punch cards was a blast from my past. I learned to be a data entry tech when punch cards were the latest thing. Years later when I was a logistics manager for the AF for phased array radars tied to NORAD, that was the technology used to run everything. Now a smartphone has more computing power.
October 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The punch cards was a blast from my past. I learned to be a data entry tech when punch cards were the latest thing. Years later when I was a logistics manager for the AF for phased array radars tied to NORAD, that was the technology used to run everything. Now a smartphone has more computing power.
Now playing on First Tracks: "Tiny Town" by The Real Chuck Norad
October 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Now playing on First Tracks: "Tiny Town" by The Real Chuck Norad
Imagine what the morale at NORAD headquarters is like right now.
October 1, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Imagine what the morale at NORAD headquarters is like right now.
NORAD falls for the “press me” gag 😂
October 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
NORAD falls for the “press me” gag 😂
Now playing on Radio Pocho: "Eyeball" by The Real Chuck Norad
October 1, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Now playing on Radio Pocho: "Eyeball" by The Real Chuck Norad
Trump has said he intends to annex Canada as America’s 51st state. Concomitantly Canada’s military is well into planning how to deal with a U.S. military invasion, while ironically sitting side-by-side with the American military in Colorado Springs within the NORAD treaty
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Donald Trump warring with neighbours creates costs for America
Trump has said that he intends to annex Canada as America's 51st state. Concomitantly Canada's military is well into planning on how to deal...
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September 30, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Trump has said he intends to annex Canada as America’s 51st state. Concomitantly Canada’s military is well into planning how to deal with a U.S. military invasion, while ironically sitting side-by-side with the American military in Colorado Springs within the NORAD treaty
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This diagram is amazing. I've never seen something broken down quite this detailed in an official report. It shows exactly how long it would take to get bombers and missiles off the ground after a launch was detected. The question mark for delay for "PRESIDENT" is fascinating! More in the alt text.
![From the text explaining the diagram, which I have highlighted in a few places:
**In the missile-command loop, major uncertainty in the time required to complete the chain arises from the impossibility of predicting the reaction time of the NCA [the President and his advisors]. It is not really even possible to assign upper and lower bounds to this interval. Even if the NCA is assembled and a response plan is already selected, some time would be required to assimilate the nature of the attack. On the other hand, if the attack is a complete surprise and Washington, D.C. is attacked early in the exchange, just assembling the NCA, or what is left of it, may consume hours.** Because any assessment of this time interval necessarily must be extremely scenario dependent, this study adopted the approach of determining how much time could be allotted to this process given the probable attack parameters and the known time delays.
Once the launch decision has been made at the NCA level, there are still three significant delays before the missiles can be considered safe. **The most important and the most surprising of the delays is the 11 minutes required by the launch control crew to receive, decode, authenticate and execute the launch command.** This time delay is not a minimum or even the average of all launch crews but rather it is an interval which has been established by Air Force doctrine to insure that no crew attempts to launch before all crews have completed their prelaunch functions.
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The page goes on to explain that any Minuteman Launched Control Center (LCC) crew can cancel the order of any others, as a failsafe measure. This means that the launching of a squadron is thus "determined by the slowest crew" on purpose. It says also that a "common time reference" was established to avoid fratricide, and so it is total 11 minutes + 4 minutes of code processing = 15 minutes to launch.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d6lghffuwlinx22c2rtfbdwv/bafkreiak5b7gpcbffiyrbhnjc7ml2ebas2u3kqny2wlerxdmzrorfcr2hu)
September 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This diagram is amazing. I've never seen something broken down quite this detailed in an official report. It shows exactly how long it would take to get bombers and missiles off the ground after a launch was detected. The question mark for delay for "PRESIDENT" is fascinating! More in the alt text.
Operation Tundra Merlin is an enduring U.S.-Canadian homeland-defense operation in the Alaskan Theater of Operations, rather than a single exercise. Under USNORTHCOM and ALCOM, it integrates U.S. forces assigned to NORAD and USNORTHCOM with Canadian forces and other mission partners.
September 29, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Operation Tundra Merlin is an enduring U.S.-Canadian homeland-defense operation in the Alaskan Theater of Operations, rather than a single exercise. Under USNORTHCOM and ALCOM, it integrates U.S. forces assigned to NORAD and USNORTHCOM with Canadian forces and other mission partners.
CelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:17:59.990 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 70 satellites is set to occur 2026-10-01 19:12:24.250 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:23:17.350 UTC.
September 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
CelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:17:59.990 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 70 satellites is set to occur 2026-10-01 19:12:24.250 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:23:17.350 UTC.
WATCH: NORAD scrambles armed F-16 fighter jets over Chicago to intercept 10 of 15 aircraft violating an FAA flight ban during Donald Trump's Sunday visit to the Presidents Cup at Medinah. Jets fire flares to warn pilots caught off guard after a system lag delays notice of an extended restriction.
September 29, 2026 at 6:43 PM
WATCH: NORAD scrambles armed F-16 fighter jets over Chicago to intercept 10 of 15 aircraft violating an FAA flight ban during Donald Trump's Sunday visit to the Presidents Cup at Medinah. Jets fire flares to warn pilots caught off guard after a system lag delays notice of an extended restriction.
À force, il va réussir à sortir le Canada du NORAD...
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Washington interdit l’importation de certains produits canadiens, dont des alcools
La Maison Blanche avait annoncé cette mesure le 8 septembre, après que le Canada a imposé de nouveaux droits de douane sur des produits américains, en réponse aux surtaxes mises en place par Washingto...
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September 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
À force, il va réussir à sortir le Canada du NORAD...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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