AOC Seen Partying Maskless at Miami Drag Bar amid Controversy

Paul Bois2 Jan 2022

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-NY) smiles as Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on "An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm …

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The openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to have brushed off critics of her New Year’s escape to Florida as her home state undergoes a surge in coronavirus cases by allegedly partying maskless at a drag bar in Miami.

Posted Sunday by Florida’s Conservative Voice, the video appeared to show the maskless congresswoman being welcomed onto the stage at a densely packed drag queen bar as she waved and smiled at cheering fans.

AOC’s appearance at the drag queen bar comes several days after National Review revealed photos of the congresswoman relaxing maskless at a restaurant in Miami Beach alongside her boyfriend. Her trip to the free state of Florida occurred just as New York was experiencing a surge in omicron cases

“New York smashed its single-day COVID case record for the second straight day Thursday, reporting at least 74,207 new positives as the omicron surge stretches hospitals further,” NBC New York reported on Thursday.

In response to the criticism, particularly of her boyfriend’s appearance, the congresswoman accused Republicans of having a sexual obsession with her.

“It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird,” she said.

Critics of AOC blasted her for suggesting that Republican attacks on her result from sexual frustration.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/02/aoc-seen-partying-maskless-at-miami-drag-bar-amid-controversy/

Exclusive — Andy Biggs:‘This Country Is Going to Be Saved at the State Level’

Alana Mastrangelo2 Jan 2022

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he believes “this country is going to be saved at the state level,” which is why the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) recently announced its intention to establish versions of the Freedom Caucus throughout state legislatures.

“We put this together, this idea, about a year ago, and have been working on it,” Biggs told Breitbart News at Turning Point USA’s recent AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

“There will be a separate unit, legally, and they’re going to — help provide communication and liaison between state legislative HFCs, and then federal HFC,” the congressman explained.

“We think that this country is going to be saved at the state level, so we want to be able to provide the support that they need,” Biggs said. “We want them to know what the FEDs are doing, and we want to hear what they’re doing and what their issues are so we can have better communication to try to fix what’s going on in Congress that affects negatively the states.”

Biggs added that he believes the Freedom Caucuses will be the future of the Republican Party, “which is already a more right-leaning Party than it has been.”

“I think we have a chance to really change the dialog, and the trajectory of the Republican Party long-term,” he said. “And that really is the vision that I have and that the Freedom Caucuses have.”

After being asked if he thinks the White House putting pressure on Big Tech to silence American citizens is a violation of the First Amendment, Biggs said, “That’s fascism, because they’re using big business to implement big government and anti-Constitutional policies.”

“So I think it’s a clear violation,” the congressman added. “The second thing is, we can change that, and we need to get in and change that. We can do it with Section 230, which we need to change the protections that we’re giving them.”

“They are acting like monopolies, anti-trust behavior, and we need to take action on that,” Biggs said. “If we do that, we can turn that back so it’s freer again.”

Over New Year’s weekend Twitter permanently blacklisted the personal account of a sitting member of Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Last year, Twitter permanently banned then-sitting United States President Donald Trump from the platform.

Biggs also reacted to President Joe Biden recently announcing a list of his 2021 accomplishments amid 40-year high inflation, the southern border and supply chain crises, and Americans stranded in Afghanistan, stating, “there are no accomplishments for this administration.”

“The foreign policy is an absolute disaster, we’ve got folks left in Afghanistan, we’ve emboldened China, North Korea, the Taliban is back in power. We’ve degraded the peaceful situation in the Middle East that was there. This is just a joke,” the congressman said.

Biggs continued:

And then internally, on domestic policy, we’ve got inflation like we haven’t seen in 35 years — and it’s growing — we killed our energy policy, which was actually making us energy independent, we’ve got crime rates blowing up — and we’ve got an invasion, an Article IV, Section 4 invasion that the federal government is ignoring on our southern border.

“The list of accomplishments — who knows what [Biden] thinks they might be — but there are none,” Biggs affirmed. “There are no positive accomplishments that this regime as put together.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/02/exclusive-andy-biggs-this-country-going-saved-state-level/

WATCH:Bill Filed in Florida Would Allow Video, Audio Recording in Classrooms

Amy Furr2 Jan 2022

A bill filed in the Florida Legislature seeks to allow video and audio recordings in school classrooms, WFLA reported Sunday.

In addition, it would require teachers to wear microphones and permit parents to review video of “incidents,” the outlet said, noting that HB 1055 was sponsored by Florida Rep. Bob Rommel (R-Naples).

“It would allow school districts to install video cameras in classrooms for the purposes of recording an ‘incident’ — which it defines as abuse or neglect of a student by an employee or another student,” the article continued:

Parents of a child involved in an incident must be allowed to review the video within a week, with a stipulation that the identity of other students who aren’t involved must be blurred. Teachers in schools that adopt cameras would be required to wear microphones. Cameras must be placed at the front of the classroom, capable of monitoring video and audio from all areas except a restroom or other changing areas.

However, parents, students, and employees would have to be told prior to the cameras being installed in the room.

Principals would be given charge of recordings, and they must be retained for three months or “until the conclusion of any investigation or any administrative or legal proceedings.”

Once those are finished, the video footage would be destroyed.

“The cameras cannot be livestreamed or continually monitored, and videos cannot be used for teacher evaluations,” the WFLA report said, adding, “The law would require all school districts to complete and vote on whether to implement classroom cameras by Jan. 1, 2023.”

In July, Mark Levin, author of American Marxism, advised using cameras in classrooms to monitor instructors as a response to Critical Race Theory in public school curricula, Breitbart News reported:

“Six months ago … people were calling my show and talking to me about what they were seeing on the monitor going on with their kids as a result of the pandemic,” Levin shared. “The vast majority people in this country would never have heard of critical race theory but for the pandemic [and] home teaching, where the parents are looking in the monitor and going, ‘What the hell did that teacher just say to my kid?’ which is why I now support cameras in the classroom and have been pushing for that for two months.”

He added, “I figure if courtrooms and cops can have [cameras], union members with the NEA [National Education Association] and the AFT [American Federation of Teachers] should have them in the classroom.”

In December, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced what his office called a “first of its kind in the nation” legislation to fight woke corporations and Marxist ideologies such as Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools and places of employment in the state.

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/01/02/watch-bill-filed-florida-would-allow-video-audio-recording-classrooms/

Fauci Made a Terrible COVID Prediction Last Year

Matt Margolis

Last month, Kamala Harris told the Los Angeles Times that the Biden administration was blindsided by COVID variants delta and omicron. “We didn’t see delta coming. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see delta coming,” she said. “We didn’t see omicron coming. And that’s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which, as it turns out, has mutations and variants.”

The White House then scrambled to backtrack and sent Dr. Anthony Fauci to the rescue. “We did. We definitely saw variants coming,” Fauci insisted. But back in May of 2021, Dr. Fauci appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press with Chuck Todd, where he made quite the bold prediction that now casts doubt on his more recent claim.

“Well, the fact that we have vaccines right now, Chuck, is really a game changer,” Fauci said. “I mean, if we get, which we will, to the goals that the president has established, namely, if we get 70% of the people vaccinated by the Fourth of July, namely one single dose, and even more thereafter, you may see blips. But if we handle them well, it is unlikely that you’ll see the kind of surge that we saw in the late fall and the early winter.”

So what happened? We had a surge in the fall … and then the winter.

While we’re not at 70% fully vaccinated, between the 60+% who have been vaccinated, plus those who have had COVID and fully recovered (thus obtaining natural immunity), we’re well past 70% with some form of immunity.

Related: Fauci Stands to Rake in the Biggest Federal Retirement in History

Yet, Dr. Fauci was so wrong, so very wrong. Why? Simple: despite his claim to the contrary, either he, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, didn’t anticipate the COVID variants, or he didn’t anticipate the reduced efficaciousness of the vaccines against new COVID variants.

Dr. Fauci has been the man behind our nation’s COVID response from day one, and he repeatedly gives us reasons not to trust him or his judgment. I think it’s about time Fauci steps aside. He’s failed us.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/01/02/fauci-made-a-terrible-covid-prediction-last-year-n1546215

Whoever released Omicron did a great job

CAIR Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Missouri Gun Range

Robert Spencer

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

“Islamophobia” is reaching epidemic proportions in Old Joe Biden’s America: the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Independence, Mo. law firm of Baldwin & Vernon filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming that Frontier Justice, a gun store and firing range in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, discriminated against a Muslim woman, Rania Barakat, when it wouldn’t allow her to use the range while she was wearing her hijab.

If you believe the likes of CAIR, this is nothing out of the ordinary. You have already accepted the contention that America is a racist, redneck pesthole where roaming Trump supporters routinely make life miserable for pious, peaceful, innocent Muslims. That’s the narrative that CAIR would have you believe, and so it came as no surprise when this cynical and manipulative organization’s lawyers filed this suit. But the facts, as is virtually always the case in situations such as this one, are not as originally asserted.

The Associated Press reported that CAIR and Baldwin & Vernon claim “that the gun range at Frontier Justice in Lee’s Summit enforces its dress code in a discriminatory way that disproportionately affects Muslim women.” It seems that Barakat and her husband “went to Frontier Justice on Jan. 1 [2020] to shoot at the gun range. According to the lawsuit, Barakat was told she would not be allowed to use the range unless she removed her hijab, a religious head covering typically worn by Muslim women.”

That’s a clear case of discrimination, right? Clearly, Frontier Justice hates Muslims and doesn’t want them shooting guns. Or, if it is going to allow Muslim women in particular to fire weapons, they can only do so after being humiliated and forced to deny their faith and submit to the lustful gaze of the infidel males present, right?

That is evidently the reasoning of CAIR and Baldwin & Vernon. “This case,” said attorney Kevin Baldwin, “is about equality in all aspects of American life and about ensuring those promises and ideals set forth by the Founders ‘to secure the blessings of Liberty’ not just for themselves, but all who came after.”

Reality, however, is different. According to AP, “the gun range requires shooters to remove all head coverings except baseball caps facing forward. A store manager explained that shrapnel could cause the hijab and skin to burn.” Bren Brown, president of Frontier Justice, said, “It saddens us that anyone would say we are not inclusive, given that we serve all races and religions every single day in all of our stores. We pride ourselves on this fact, and we strongly believe in America and the Second Amendment that is for every single American. Period.”

The lawsuit, however, claims otherwise, and asserts that Frontier Justice applies its policies inconsistently. AP reports that the suit “also claims that Instagram posts from Frontier Justice show customers wearing baseball caps turned backward, and hats and scarves.”

Moussa Elbayoumy, chairman of the board of CAIR-Kansas, was enraged. “It is completely unacceptable for a business establishment to deny service to customers based on their religious beliefs — and that is exactly what Frontier Justice has done. The claim that a hijab somehow presents a safety issue is merely a bad excuse in an attempt to justify a pattern of discriminatory treatment of Muslim women.”

The case will turn on whether or not there is any substance to the claims that Frontier Justice selectively enforced its rules. However, the involvement of CAIR makes the case suspicious on its face, as CAIR has disregarded safety considerations before in its quest to find instances of discrimination against Muslims.

In August 2020, CAIR filed suit on behalf of three Muslim women who claimed they were forbidden to wear hijabs at their jobs at the New Castle, Delaware County Detention Center and Ferris School for adjudicated juveniles. CAIR attorney Zanah Ghalawanji said, “No one should have to pick between their livelihood and their faith. By standing up for their rights and fighting back, Tia, Shakeya and Madinah hope that this agency will be prohibited from imposing this terrible predicament on other women in the future.”

Safety concerns are of little or no apparent interest to CAIR. The idea behind all thesesuits is to establish and reinforce the principle that, where Islamic law and American law and custom conflict, it is American custom that must give way.

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2022/01/02/cair-files-discrimination-lawsuit-against-missouri-gun-range-n1546199

Five Fearless Political Predictions for the New Year

A.J. KaufmanJan 01, 2022 1:20 PM

Hello, 2022. Let’s see if any of these bold prognostications occur:

1. The Omicron variant will fade in the next month and be a semi-distant memory of media hype, misinformation and outright lies by Easter.

1. The February Beijing Olympics — aka The Genocide Games— will be a fiasco of illness, controversy, and record-low television ratings as the liberal West inexplicably appeases Communist thugs.

1. Democrats will continue to learn nothing from failures and instead bash anyone not on board with their socialist agenda; this includes President Joe Biden, who will continue to waffle on whether he will run for re-election. Vacuous Vice President Kamala Harris will still be an unmitigated, unlikable disaster, causing Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, Jared Polis, and even Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren to be rumored 2024 presidential candidates. And paranoid Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will not challenge Chuck Schumer for New York‘s U.S. Senate seat.

1. The GOP reclaims the U.S. House easily but, unless they find more electable candidates than current options in Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, will allow Democrats to retain slim control of the U.S. Senate.

1. Despite the heroic daily efforts of our border patrol, the White House’s inexcusable apathy will cause the U.S.-Mexico border to remain a sieve. Inept Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas finally is fired. Kamala Harris still won’t visit the southern border; instead, she’ll stay entitled and continue to lash out with divisive nonsense.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ari-j-kaufman/2022/01/01/five-fearless-political-predictions-for-the-new-year-n1545966

Stephanopoulos Claims Clinton Supporters Didn’t Riot After 2016 Election, Forgets 2017 Inauguration Day Riots

Gretchen Clayson

January 02, 2022 3:12 PM ET

George Stephanopoulos suggested Sunday that even though Hillary Clinton supporters did not recognize the 2016 election as legitimate, they did not take the “same action” as Trump supporters after the 2020 election.

In a roundtable discussion on “This Week,” Stephanopoulos seemed to agree with his guest, CEO of Democracy For America Yvette Simpson, when she claimed that there was “no precedent” for the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol. The two were discussing a poll which showed that one-third of Americans felt violence against the government was “justified.”

“I mean, this is purely in the Republican camp. The reality is, is even the poll suggested the Democrats agree that this was not about democracy. This is about ruining democracy, not protecting it,” Simpson argued. (RELATED: Anti-Trump Hysteria Is Destroying America)

“Twenty-five percent of Democrats said violence was acceptable in that poll,” ABC Analyst Sarah Isgur countered. “In 2017, a third of Hillary Clinton voters said Donald Trump was not legitimately elected. You’re saying this is unprecedented?”

Stephanopoulos interjected that Hillary Clinton supporters “did not take the same action.”

Police arrested more than 200 rioters in Washington, D.C., in January 2017 as riots ensued immediately after President Trump’s swearing in ceremony. Four businesses underwent “significant damage” due to vandalism, six police officers sustained minor injuries, and one limousine was torched on Inauguration Day, NBC News reported at the time.

Anti-Trump protests also erupted in New York, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago and Portland, resulting in at least one man being shot in Seattle, CNN reported. Liberal groups praised the work of protesters, many of whom traveled from around the country to rail against Trump’s “illegitimate” election, inspiring the Women’s March later that month.

What had begun as a Facebook post just after Trump’s election, the Women’s March, according to the New York Times, was the start of what organizers hoped would be a sustained campaign of protest in Trump’s America. It was at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. where Madonna told a crowd of thousands that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”

Despite its violent and divisive rhetoric, many Democratic leaders and politicians attended the march, including Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren who told the crowd,“We can whimper, we can whine or we can fight back. Me, I’m here to fight back.”

Hillary Clinton even expressed her support for the march in a tweet.

“We’re very focused on January 6,” Isgur stated. “Again, I am all for every prosecution that’s going on. There are 700 indictments out there. That is good. But when I look forward to 2024, I’m deeply concerned by these numbers because what it says to me is that people on both sides are not ready to accept the results of the next election.”

When Stephanopoulos asked her to clarify if she indeed meant both sides, Isgur maintained that she “absolutely” believed it to be the case.

“You look back at 2017, look at the ABC poll on whether Trump was legitimately elected. It was about six to eight points off of this one right now, not that far off. Hillary Clinton asked in 2017, was Trump legitimately elected, point blank. She did not say yes. She said she had questions,” Isgur explained.

“You think Democrats, if Donald Trump runs again, if Donald Trump wins in 2024, you think Democrats are going to think he was legitimately elected? You got to be kidding me,” Isgur concluded.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/02/stephanopoulos-hillary-clinton-january-6-election-riots-2016-yvette-simpson/

Reform the Electoral Count Act

by Washington Examiner

| January 03, 2022 12:00 AM

Recent admissions from an insider about former President Donald Trump’s challenge to last year’s election results should impel lawmakers of both parties to revise the convoluted Electoral Count Act that governed the proceedings.

Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, wrote in a memoir that he and Trump strategist Steve Bannon had a plan to halt Congress’s certification of election results last Jan. 6 — a plan that actually was hurt, he said, not helped, by the riot that engulfed the U.S. Capitol. The idea was to exploit loopholes in the Electoral Count Act to ramp up pressure on Vice President Mike Pence, while giving Pence a flimsy excuse to reject results from six states.

“By law [in the ECA], both the House of Representatives and the Senate must spend up to two hours of debate per state on each requested challenge,” Navarro wrote. “For the six battleground states, that would add up to as much as twenty-four hours of nationally televised hearings across the two chambers of Congress.”

If the hearings ginned up enough public pressure on Pence, the logic went. Pence would (to quote a news summary) “send the electoral votes back to six contested states, where Republican-led legislatures could try to overturn the results.”

It has long been known that this was Navarro’s goal, but the report on his intended mechanism is new. Trump’s team first wanted to use some of the ECA’s unwieldy procedures to create confusion about which electoral votes were legitimate and then to use other ECA provisions — its in-Congress challenge rules — to “run out the clock” on Congress’s ability to make the results official.

Specifically, one portion of the ECA refers to legislative and judicial determination of a state’s electors, while another makes official the ultimate certification by each state’s governor. Then, yet another portion can be wrongly interpreted to give Congress leeway to decide anew whether the certifications pass muster, while at one point requiring the House and Senate to deliberate separately and at another point saying “the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes….”

It all appears self-contradictory, and it’s all written with odd sentence structures and double- and triple-negatives. No wonder it could create confusion.

The Bannon-Navarro plan was improper, of course. There were no legitimate grounds to reject the results certified by each of the states. But the vital need is not to castigate but to urge future measures. The Trump team’s identification of all the procedural confusions in the ECA shows that the law needs reform. The attempted decertification nearly brought the electoral system to a dangerous impasse. The system cannot afford another such instance of impasse and instability.

The ECA was written in the 19th century, when technology and travel were more limited and the chain of custody of official records more difficult to ascertain.

We cannot know which party will be in position to exploit perplexity in future elections and which could suffer from it. Both parties should want to avoid both bewilderment and perfidy enabled by current ECA confusion.

As thinkers and reformers have been saying for months, and as polls show the public wants, Congress should rewrite the ECA. Revise its deadlines. Take account of modern technology. Streamline its procedures. Simplify its language. Clarify that the vice president has no independent authority to reject electoral results certified by states.

Now that Navarro’s memoir highlights the panoply of possibilities for ECA mayhem, the impetus for revision should grow. Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and Democrat leaders Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi should together start reform. In doing so, they also could renew faith that, when it comes to the basic rules, our constitutional system still can work.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/reform-the-electoral-count-act

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Top Satellite Launches to Watch in 2022

SES’s GEO and MEO fleet. Render by SES / BusinessWire

This year is set to be a big one for satellite launches, as a number of major satellite operators launch satellites that mark the culmination of years-long business plans and investments.

In this round-up, Via Satellite previews the top satellite launches we’ll be watching and covering in 2022.

SES — O3b mPOWER

SES is planning to launch two batches of its anticipated O3b mPOWER constellation in 2022. The first batch of three satellites is set to launch in the first quarter of 2022, and the second batch of three satellites in the second quarter 2022, SES confirmed to Via Satellite. The O3b mPOWER constellation will start service by the end of the year with those six satellites.

SES tapped longtime launch partner SpaceX for the missions, and SpaceX will launch the two missions from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Falcon 9 rockets. Boeing is building the full constellation of 11 O3b mPOWER satellites, based on the 702X bus.

O3b mPOWER is the next generation of the SES O3b fleet in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), which was completed with 20 satellites in 2019. It will offer terabit-level system capacity and be able to deliver managed services from tens of Mbps up to multiple Gbps per service. The constellation will primarily serve customers including cruise, commercial shipping, aviation, telcos, mobile network operators and cloud providers, militaries, government agencies, and enterprise users like oil and gas and mining.

Viasat — ViaSat-3

Viasat is preparing for the launch of ViaSat-3 in the first half of 2022. It is the first in a trio of Ka-band satellites and it will be the highest-capacity single satellite launched to Geostationary Orbit (GEO).

During Viasat’s second quarter 2022 financial results, the company said the payload is at Boeing Satellite Systems for final integration and environmental testing ahead of the launch. The company’s most recent public information targets launch in the first half of 2022. Viasat did not provide Via Satellite an update before publication of this article. Viasat previously targeted a 2021 launch, but had to push plans back.

Viasat has three launch contracts for the constellation, with Arianespace on an Ariane 6 rocket, one with United Launch Alliance on an Atlas V, and one with SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy. Next Spaceflight reports that SpaceX will launch the first satellite in the constellation.

Maxar — WorldView Legion

Maxar Technologies is preparing for a major increase in Earth imagery capacity with its first two WorldView Legion satellites in 2022. The company announced Dec. 15 that it had reserved a launch window with SpaceX from May 15, 2022 to June 13, 2022 to launch the first two WorldView Legion satellites.

Maxar plans for an initial block of six WorldView Legion satellites. Combined with Maxar’s four existing satellites, Maxar will be able to revisit rates of up to 15 times per day for monitoring missions. The WorldView Legion satellites will provide 30 cm-class resolution, and each satellite will collect imagery covering approximately 700,000 square kilometers — about the size of Texas — every day.

The first WorldView Legion batch was set for launch in 2021, but Maxar pushed back the launch due to hardware and work delays. In the company’s most recent quarterly results, CEO Dan Jablonsky said Maxar expects the remainder of the constellation to launch three to six months after the first.

Jablonsky spoke with Via Satellite about Legion in late 2019: “The customers that we’ve been speaking with are very excited about Legion, because the amount of information Legion captures, combined with our software and modeling capabilities, creates truly actionable data that can help them solve their most critical missions,” he said.

Eutelsat — KONNECT and 10B

Eutelsat continues its business evolution into a satellite fixed broadband provider with KONNECT VHTS, due for launch in the first half of 2022. KONNECT VHTS follows KONNECT, which entered service in 2020, covering part of Europe and Africa. KONNECT VHTS will cover Europe for broadband, mobility, and government service.

Built by Thales Alenia Space, the satellite was originally projected to enter service in 2021, but encountered delays. Eutelsat did not respond to Via Satellite’s request to confirm the launch time frame, but targeted the first half of 2022 in its latest quarterly results.

The satellite will be the largest ever built by Thales, stretching as tall as a three-story building. It has Ka-band capacity of 500 Gbps. The payload includes a high-performance digital processor that allows for dynamic capacity allocation and optimized spectrum use….

https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2021/12/30/top-satellite-launches-to-watch-in-2022/

NASA and Rocket Lab Clear Way for Electron Launch from Virginia in 2022

By David Hodes | December 30, 2021

North America

An Electron on the pad at Launch Complex 2, Wallops Island, Virginia. Photo: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab‘s launch site at the Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern coast of Virginia is expected to see a launch in 2022, as Rocket Lab and NASA near completion of a new flight safety certification system.

Launch Complex 2 will be the company’s first launch site in the United States. It was built specifically for the Electron rocket and is expected to support monthly orbital launches for both U.S. government and commercial missions. The complex has been finished since early 2020, when Rocket Lab rolled out an Electron vehicle on the pad, but there have been delays with the Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) that will be used at the range.

According to NASA spokesperson Jeremy Eggers, NASA is working to certify the NASA-developed software for the NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (NAFTU), which Rocket Lab intends to use for its flights from Wallops. Rocket Lab has been working with NASA on the unit in a development partnership.

There has been progress on the certification. On Dec. 17, NASA released to industry and Rocket Lab the most current version of the NAFTU software and documentation.

“We remain on track to complete flight safety certification of the software by the end of February 2022,” Eggers said. “Once that happens, Rocket Lab will need to process the software with their hardware and go through a safety review. In all, we expect to be able to support launch of the first Electron launch from Wallops in the second quarter of 2022.”

Meanwhile, Rocket Lab is ready to go at Wallops. “We could put a rocket on that pad and fly tomorrow,” Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, told Via Satellite. “NASA has had a number of delays in completing the [certification] process. So hopefully [in 2022], we’ll be able to see our vehicle on that pad and get customers lined up and start flying from there.”

When Rocket Lab chose Wallops over Cape Canaveral for its U.S. launch site in 2018, the company targeted an aggressive timeline, hoping to launch from Wallops in the third quarter of 2019. Rocket Lab has had to adjust its launch schedule during the wait. A U.S. Space Force/Air Force Research Lab mission launched in July had to be moved to the New Zealand Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 because of the delayed certification process. The launcher expects to complete an additional ten launches per year at the new Wallops launch pad.

The AFTS development partnership between Rocket Lab and NASA came about because of issues with launch processes during Rocket Lab’s first flight in May of 2018.

“Our very first flight was lost because of a simple ground software configuration on a traditional flight termination system,” Beck said. “After that flight, we said, ‘Nope, never again. We’re not having all of these guys on buttons, and making mistakes and whatnot. We’re going to do it all with a computer, and we’re going to do it autonomously.’ We worked with NASA who had an autonomous system in development, and we actually started flying it with them a year ago. We used the Autonomous Flight Termination System to fly out of the New Zealand range on a standard basis.”

NASA is now hoping to get all U.S. launches converted over from manual flight termination operations to autonomous flight termination. NASA isn’t the main driver to convert to AFTS, Eggers said, but is more of a whole-of-industry initiative….

https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2021/12/30/nasa-and-rocket-lab-clear-way-for-electron-launch-from-virginia-in-2022/

What Are We Really Witnessing in the New Space Economy?

By Michael McCarthy | December 17, 2021

NewSpace

Photo: Via Satellite illustration

We hear so much about the New Space economy in the news lately, especially with eye-catching headlines that include celebrities taking day trips to space. But what is the New Space economy, and why should we pay attention to it? Although there are probably many ways to describe or define the current state of the industry, comparing it to what it used to be might be most helpful.

The original space industry was centralized, national, and bureaucratic. It was essentially limited to state-run programs with limited numbers of public-private partnerships. The New Space economy is global, entrepreneurial, and accessible. It is increasingly diversified and expanding with private players across a variety of sub-sectors. The global space economy was valued at about $447 billion in 2020, 55% higher than a decade ago, according to The Space Report 2021 Q2. This is truly astronomical growth and made possible because the new space economy is finally connecting to the larger economy.

But to define the New Space economy as “new” might be a misnomer or not entirely accurate. An industry transformation has been underway for decades. Government agencies like NASA and the U.S. Air Force have long collaborated with private companies to advance space technology. The Communications Satellite Act of 1962 paved the way for a commercial communications satellite system; the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 went even further, requiring NASA to “seek and encourage, to the maximum extent possible, the fullest commercial use of space.” And by 2010, nearly one-third of worldwide space launches were commercial and NASA was announcing the end of the space shuttle program.

The government’s push to outsource space activities not considered core to its mission brought on a mega-trend for the industry — commercialization. This trend is behind the transformation in the space economy.

But if the government was the initial impetus, what are the primary drivers sustaining commercialization today? At its core, it is the sensibility that it is all about the customer. What the space economy is offering is finally resonating with the customer. For a long time, companies in this industry were selling the satellite or the technology, and customers understandably could not connect this to their need. So, some providers in the industry realizing that it was not about the satellite chose to start talking about the data. But still, the customer could not intuitively understand or consume that either. Now, more and more providers in the industry are realizing that it’s not about the data either, rather it’s about meeting the customer where they are and offering answers.

In turn, this improved customer-centric mentality is catching the attention of investors and the industry is becoming, for the for first time, more investable. Investors are finally seeing deals that jibe with their investment terms such as real organic growth, economies of scale, and paths to profitability. Outside investment in startup New Space firms has risen from less than $500 million per year from 2001 to 2008 to roughly $2.5 billion per year in 2015 and 2016. Investment in startup space companies hit a new record of $7.6 billion in 2020, according to Bryce Tech’s Start-Up Space 2021 report.

The increased capital means more players bringing more technologies to the marketplace. All of this translates to lower costs, reduced barriers to entry, shortened timelines for launches, and more customer-centric offerings.

So, what does this all mean? It means that the New Space economy is the Old Space economy perfecting. Perfect markets are characterized by having unlimited number of buyers and sellers, identical or substitutable products, no barriers to entry or exit, transparent information on products and prices. Value chains in perfect markets have tighter linkages typically as a result of partnerships that form to smooth discrepancies from technology advancements.

Perfect markets also have connections to the larger economy and are therefore naturally more resilient. We see this in the Earth Observation (EO) sector especially where satellite design/operations, data processing from those satellites, analytics using that data, and end-user apps that provide business decisions derived from the analytics are now a much tighter chain. Look no further than the new business units of Amazon Web Services (AWS Aerospace and Satellite) and Microsoft (Azure Space) for validation that this value chain is prized…..

https://www.satellitetoday.com/opinion/2021/12/17/what-are-we-really-witnessing-in-the-new-space-economy/

>>15300962

So many more bring launched, article was very long

How many satellites are already out there?

Satellites = Satanists????

Satellite Operators Debate Go-to-Market Strategies for LEO and GEO BroadbandThe LEO Satellite Broadband Market Outlook for 2022

The demand for broadband connectivity has been ever increasing. As of 2020, there were one billion broadband subscriptions including Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), cable, or fiber-optic broadband services. Telecoms have been working to replace low-speed DSL broadband with fiber-optic broadband service. In 2020 alone, there were 42 million fiber-optic broadband net additions.

Cable network operators also continue to upgrade the networks to DOCSIS 3.1 to support Gigabit speed broadband access. Despite the advancements in different broadband technologies, only around half of total households in the world are connected to a type of fixed broadband. Among the households which are not connected to fixed broadband access, mobile network is the primary connectivity for internet access since many populations use internet via their mobile phones. Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband services using mobile networks and proprietary technologies have also been filling the broadband gap across different markets. Satellite has been an important technology to provide broadband in remote areas where it is challenging to deploy other terrestrial broadband networks.

The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted the importance of broadband connectivity in both social and economic aspects of work, learning, communication, shopping, and healthcare. Although network operators have managed the traffic surge contributed by home broadband networks well, governments around the world have witnessed that populations without efficient connectivity faced challenges to navigate through the pandemic. While households in the areas with limited fixed infrastructure need to rely on mobile network to access internet, it should be noted that 8 percent of the world’s population is still outside the mobile internet coverage according to the GSA. There is clearly a digital divide across different markets which needs to be addressed.

The Role of Satellite Broadband

Internet access via satellite networks has been a crucial solution for use cases such as emergency response, maritime, aviation, and broadband access in remote areas. Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite systems are the primary platform to provide broadband service, but only at a limited speed, between 5 Megabytes per second to 100 Megabytes per second, and with high latency, around 500 milliseconds, compared to other broadband platforms. Hardware and installation cost, usually above $300 is relatively high for consumers in emerging markets to get satellite broadband service. It is estimated that satellite market is providing around 3.5 million subscriptions worldwide as of today with the highest subscriber concentration in North America, followed by Europe.

Although satellite networks cover almost everywhere around the world, high cost of receiver hardware, low speed, and high latency have been a barrier for satellite broadband services to gain mass adoption. Recent Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite development by SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper are expected to change market dynamics since shorter distance from Earth’s surface enables LEO satellites to support latency as low as 30 milliseconds.

What is the Outlook for LEO Satellite Broadband in 2022?

LEO satellite broadband is still a niche market. According to SpaceX, which launched LEO broadband service Starlink in late 2020, it has now achieved around a 90,000-user base. It recently gained license to operate StarLink service in Mexico and is now trying to secure license to operate in India, one of the markets with lowest fixed broadband penetration. OneWeb, another LEO platform which aims to enter broadband market, has launched over 300 satellites; however, it is likely to start commercial launch only in later 2021 after securing agreement with AT&T to provide broadband connectivity for AT&T business customers. Amazon’s Project Kuiper is still far from commercialization since it has yet to launch its first satellite.

Although LEO platforms supports low latency, high terminal cost is possibly a key challenge to expanding the customer base….

https://www.satellitetoday.com/opinion/2021/11/19/the-leo-satellite-broadband-market-outlook-for-2022/

>>15301009

I hope parrnts love their children enough to never do this! I think parents now consider children disposable for social gain. We’ve got a very sick society now and its not getting better.

>>15301020

On podos twitter 1,000s signed up for GETTR yesterday

https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton/status/1477778215829749761?s=20

What’s the plan with Truth Social, Rumble, GETTR and possibly GAB?. You know there’s got to be a plan, right?

>>15301052

We vote to make them work harder, if we dont, we give up and let they win (illegally). In some cases we win evem though they cheat—look at TX, can you imagine if TX patriots didnt vote?

Patriots fight, that don’t give up

>>15301075

Thats what I was wondering, so they will try to subvert Truth Social? When the board was down I was on GAB, a lot of censorship went down there