Day: October 5, 2026

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Explosions reportedly shook northern Riyadh as the Houthis claim strikes on Saudi airports and an Aramco refinery

A Houthi military spokesman says the group targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Aramco’s Rabigh refinery, Abha airport, the Khamis Mushait air base and sites in Najran and Jazan.

Residents in northern Riyadh say blasts rattled windows near the airport and flights are badly delayed, though Saudi Arabia hasn’t confirmed any hits.

Rabigh sits on the Red Sea coast Saudi oil now depends on to skip Hormuz, so the Houthis are answering the push on Bab al-Mandeb by aiming at the bypass route itself.

Source: Al Jazeera, DD Geopolitics on TG / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Elon wants a gas pipe into Cape Canaveral, so Starship isn’t waiting on trucks to bring the fuel

Coastal Connect, a company that’s part of SpaceX, asked Florida in September to approve a 32.4-mile line in Brevard County, off the existing interstate pipeline.

Starship burns liquid methane. In the request, the company says truck deliveries and the local lines can’t cover the launch rate they want.

They have asked for a shorter version, 8 miles, at the Texas site too, and they are hiring gas traders.

Source: Reuters,  @SpaceX / Writer: Lucas

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