Sure, the time between detections is faster than the time it takes light to travel from one detector to the other. Nothing is actually traveling faster than light and no physical laws are broken.
This is plain fantasy. The CIA and others have had the power to do something about him for years now and have done nothing and they're not stopping this coup, either. You've seen how we got here. What makes you think it'll end differently to how it's been going?
Meh, SpaceX got those contracts because they're good at what they do.