“THE MOON IS OURS,” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social page, posting a picture of the lunar surface. In response, the official Dogecoin cryptocurrency account on X ironically pointed out: “Ahem, there is a queue,” hinting at the famous “DOGE to the moon” meme and the launch of a real space mission.

Dogecoin’s reply was more than a joke: on September fourteenth, the launch of the DOGE-one satellite, funded entirely in Dogecoin, is scheduled from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket. Against the backdrop of this news and the approaching launch date, the DOGE exchange rate has jumped by twenty-seven percent over the past month, reaching the nine-cent mark.