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Amazon's Project Kuiper is a program to launch more than 3,000 satellites into orbit to compete with other internet-from-space rivals, such as Elon Musk's Starlink. The project uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to create a mesh network that blankets Earth. The first two demonstration satellites launched on October 6, 2023 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The satellites have infrared lasers that have transferred data at 100 gigabits per second. The system has been successfully tested in orbit, maintaining data transmission speeds of 100 gigabits per second over a distance of nearly 621 miles (1,000 kilometers).

3,236 satellites operating in 98 orbital planes in three orbital shells

Standard customer terminal measuring less than 11 inches square and 1 inch thick

Ultra-compact design 7-inch square customer terminal weighing one pound

The project aims to use cheaper, lighter, and less likely to fail components. OISL is attractive because it allows satellites to relay data back and forth over wide swaths of the planet where no ground stations exist. For example, satellites can relay data in the middle of the ocean.

Amazon will use SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for three launches beginning in 2025, transporting some of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites into space. The Federal Communications Commission requires that Amazon deploy half of its planned 3,236 satellites in orbit by July 2026

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Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite internet service prices range from $90–$5,000 per month, with 15–200 GB per month and 60–500 GB per month available. Amazon plans to provide service to its first customers by the end of 2024, and expects to have enough satellites deployed for early customer pilots in the second half of 2024.

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband initiative, which aims to establish an array of more than 3,000 internet satellites in low orbit. The satellites are expected to compete with SpaceX's Starlink, which has more than 1 million customers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbGjzF3mB0

Maggie Haberman Details Trump’s ‘Pretty Specific Stare At Me’ During Trial

–huffpost.com/entry/maggie-haberman-donald-trump-hush-money-trial_n_661e1836e4b0bdba1c5af027

Lee MoranApril 16, 2024–

'' The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman has described how former President Donald Trump “made a pretty specific stare at me” during the first day of his hush money trial after she’d reported that he’d fallen asleep in court.''

“At one point, the pool said that he was glaring at you for several seconds,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Haberman on Monday’s broadcast of “The Source.”

“You had reported shortly before that, during a break, that he appeared to be falling asleep at one point as the proceedings were getting kind of tedious. Did you notice that?” asked Collins.

“Yes, I noticed,” Haberman replied in a video shared online by Mediaite. “He made a pretty specific stare at me and walked out of the room.”

Collins said she’d been “on the receiving end of said glares” from the presumptive GOP nominee.

“I have too,” Haberman responded, noting how she’s seen “lots of people fall asleep in the courtroom” ― from jurors to judges. But, “If anyone falls asleep who’s a criminal defendant in a case, we’re going to report on it.”

Trump “doesn’t like when such things are reported and I’m guessing, I don’t know, that that’s what this [stare] was about,” she added.

“I think that having to sit there and be captive while we all report on him is going to be deeply uncomfortable for him because he is someone who likes to control things,” she added.

Haberman elsewhere in her discussion with Collins described Trump as getting “bored and fidgety” in court but said he was “actually on fairly good behavior” compared with his outbursts during his civil trials.

Watch the interview here:

https://youtu.be/jOKBwTBFxlI

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https://youtu.be/jOKBwTBFxlI

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Is Miss America owned by Trump?

The pageant was owned by Donald Trump from 1996 to 2015 and was previously broadcast on NBC. In September 2015, WME/IMG purchased the pageant from Trump.

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If Mike Johnson truly believes the insane thing he says here that the U.S. is at war Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution requires him to declare it with a vote of Congress and be held accountable for the actions therein. Otherwise, he's just avoiding leading and fixing this country and her borders by sending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1780431261024043111

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https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1780309930198868386

Mike Johnson proclaims that he is a “wartime speaker” but what war is America in? America does not need to be in any wars unless fools in Washington make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

At a leftist protest against Kyle Rittenhouse at Kent State, Kenosha gunman Gaige Grosskreutz gave a speech. Grosskreutz, who now uses the name Paul Prediger, was the armed man who rushed at Rittenhouse with a pistol before being shot in the arm.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1780368822010102043

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Andrew Weissmann says Democrat Judge Merchan's work so far in the New York trial is fair because he is similar to another Trump-hating Judge who ruled against Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case, Judge Lawrence Kaplan.

https://twitter.com/RobGouveiaEsq/status/1780491384707043782

I was in Naples FL in March 2021 when I heard about an armed FBI raid of a J6er. That prompted my first bit of research and column on DOJ's abuse of 1512c2.

Since then, I have covered the continued abuse of this law incl. DOJ now seeking terror enhancements at sentencing on 1512c2 convictions.

No one knows what SCOTUS will ultimately decide but listening to the government defend this today before the highest court will be immensely gratifying.

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1780231347857986026

Getting closer and closer to what the wise already knew from Fauci's behavior in 2020 - he created AND unleashed the virus on purpose, intending for it to do maximum damage, which is why he issued intentionally deadly medical advisories on every single point during the entire affair.

https://twitter.com/ProjectVirginia/status/1780329282817978858

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https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1780286485754679732

@COVIDSelect

announces a subpoena to compel Dr. David Morens — a top advisor to Dr. Fauci — to hand-over COVID-19 documents in his personal email.

This follows recently CONFIRMED whistleblower allegations that Dr. Morens used his Gmail to hide COVID-19 information.