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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296699 (261458ZJUL24) Notable: Fmr. Pres. Obama & Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris for President

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Campaign 2024

Fmr. Pres. Obama & Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris for President

In a video released by her campaign, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris received a call from former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama endorsing her candidacy.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?537410-1/fmr-pres-obama-michelle-obama-endorse-kamala-harris-president

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296713 (261502ZJUL24) Notable: The next thing that never happened is coming soon

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https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1816736471576887483

Stephen L. Miller

@redsteeze

The next thing that never happened is coming soon

1:25 AM · Jul 26, 2024

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296737 (261510ZJUL24) Notable: NASA

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NASA's Fermi Finds New Feature in Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Yet Seen

Jul 25, 2024

In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB).

Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.

The brightest gamma-ray burst yet recorded gave scientists a new high-energy feature to study.

“A few minutes after the BOAT erupted, Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor recorded an unusual energy peak that caught our attention,” said lead researcher Maria Edvige Ravasio at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and affiliated with Brera Observatory, part of INAF

(the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics) in Merate, Italy.

“When I first saw that signal, it gave me goosebumps. Our analysis since then shows it to be the first high-confidence emission line ever seen in 50 years of studying GRBs.”

A paper about the discovery appears in the July 26 edition of the journal Science.

When matter interacts with light, the energy can be absorbed and reemitted in characteristic ways. These interactions can brighten or dim particular colors (or energies), producing key features visible when the light is spread out, rainbow-like, in a spectrum.

These features can reveal a wealth of information, such as the chemical elements involved in the interaction. At higher energies, spectral features can uncover specific particle processes, such as matter and antimatter annihilating to produce gamma rays.

“While some previous studies have reported possible evidence for absorption and emission features in other GRBs, subsequent scrutiny revealed that all of these could just be statistical fluctuations.

What we see in the BOAT is different,” said coauthor Om Sharan Salafia at INAF-Brera Observatory in Milan, Italy. “We’ve determined that the odds this feature is just a noise fluctuation are less than one chance in half a billion.”

GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the cosmos and emit copious amounts of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. The most common type occurs when the core of a massive star exhausts its fuel, collapses, and forms a rapidly spinning black hole.

Matter falling into the black hole powers oppositely directed particle jets that blast through the star’s outer layers at nearly the speed of light. We detect GRBs when one of these jets points almost directly toward Earth.

The BOAT, formally known as GRB 221009A, erupted Oct. 9, 2022, and promptly saturated most of the gamma-ray detectors in orbit, including those on Fermi. This prevented them from measuring the most intense part of the blast.

Reconstructed observations, coupled with statistical arguments, suggest the BOAT, if part of the same population as previously detected GRBs, was likely the brightest burst to appear in Earth’s skies in 10,000 years.

The putative emission line appears almost 5 minutes after the burst was detected and well after it had dimmed enough to end saturation effects for Fermi.

The line persisted for at least 40 seconds, and the emission reached a peak energy of about 12 MeV (million electron volts). For comparison, the energy of visible light ranges from 2 to 3 electron volts.

So what produced this spectral feature? The team thinks the most likely source is the annihilation of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.

“When an electron and a positron collide, they annihilate, producing a pair of gamma rays with an energy of 0.511 MeV,” said coauthor Gor Oganesyan at Gran Sasso Science Institute and Gran Sasso National Laboratory

in L’Aquila, Italy. “Because we’re looking into the jet, where matter is moving at near light speed, this emission becomes greatly blueshifted and pushed toward much higher energies.”

If this interpretation is correct, to produce an emission line peaking at 12 MeV, the annihilating particles had to have been moving toward us at about 99.9% the speed of light.

“After decades of studying these incredible cosmic explosions, we still don’t understand the details of how these jets work,” noted Elizabeth Hays, the Fermi project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

“Finding clues like this remarkable emission line will help scientists investigate this extreme environment more deeply.”

https://www.asdnews.com/news/aerospace/2024/07/25/nasas-fermi-finds-new-feature-brightest-gammaray-burst-yet-seen

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296741 (261513ZJUL24) Notable: Kamala Was Made ‘Rural Broadband Czar’ Overseeing $42bn Program That Has Yet to Connect Anyone to Internet

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https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/26/kamala-was-made-rural-broadband-czar-overseeing-42bn-program-that-has-yet-to-connect-anyone-to-internet/

Kamala Was Made ‘Rural Broadband Czar’ Overseeing $42bn Program That Has Yet to Connect Anyone to Internet.

Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to serve as the rural broadband czar in 2021. Part of her task was overseeing the implementation of a $42 billion program to connect Americans in rural and remote parts of the country to the Internet. According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr, however, after almost 1,000 days, not a single person has actually been connected to the web.

“Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been wired to fail,” FCC Commissioner Carr wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He added: “President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021 and 982 days later not [one] person has been connected.”

The National Pulse reported on the rural broadband program’s looming failure in June, noting that no project receiving funds from the $42 billion plan will break ground before 2025. Internet service providers (ISPs) and lawmakers on Capitol Hill contend the Biden-Harris government’s burdensome regulations—including climate change mandates, union worker requirements, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies—have brought progress on expanding rural Internet access to a halt.

Additionally, the ISPs point to attempts by the Biden-Harris Commerce Department to regulate consumer rates in a manner beyond the agency’s authority as a reason for the program’s ineffectiveness. This could soon change with the recent Supreme Court ruling effectively ending Chevron deference, which allowed for such instances of regulatory overreach.

Commissioner Carr has warned that the Biden-Harris government estimates claiming the program is on track to break ground in 2025 and see substantial progress by 2026 are overly optimistic. According to Carr, the projects overseen by Harris won’t be near completion in many underserved areas until 2030.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296753 (261517ZJUL24) Notable: Federal Judge Rules Against Free Speech in Elementary Schools

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July 25, 2024

Federal Judge Rules Against Free Speech in Elementary Schools

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District Court Judge David Carter delivered a crushing blow against free speech rights in elementary schoolsin an outrageous case out of Orange County. Principal Jesus Becerra at Viejo Elementary punished a seven-year-old girl named B.B. in the lawsuit for writing “any life” under a “Black Lives Matter” picture.Judge Carterissued a sweeping decision thatsaid that she has no free speech rights in the matter due to her age and that the school is allowed to engage in raw censorship. He is now being appealed. (Are you fucking kidding me?)

The message from theschool seems to be that black lives matter but free speech does not. The school found a kindred spirit in Judge David Carter.

After a lesson on Martin Luther King, B.B. gave her picture to a friend, believing the inclusive image of four shapes of different races and the words would be comforting to a friend. However, when that child showed the picture to a parent, a complaint was filed that B.B.’s picture was insensitive and offensive.Becerra responded by disciplining the child for her inclusive picture.

Becerra should be fired, but his extreme views and lack of judgment is hardly unique in education.The far greater damage was created by Carter’s opinion.

Judge Carter ruled that B.B. has no free speech to protect due to her age,but that “students have the right to be free from speech that denigrates their race while at school.”

Judge Carter added that “an elementary school … is not a marketplace of ideas… Thus, the downside of regulating speech there is not as significant as it is in high schools, where students are approaching voting age and controversial speech could spark conducive conversation.” (What? Remove the guy from the bench, CA is nuts)

The court leaves a vacuum of protected rights that he fills with what seems unchecked authority for the school:“a parent might second-guess (the principal’s) conclusion, but his decision to discipline B.B. belongs to him, not the federal courts.”

The Pacific Legal Foundation, has now filed a petition with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Chelsea Boyle and her child, B.B…

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/07/25/federal-judge-rules-against-free-speech-in-elementary-schools/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296759 (261517ZJUL24) Notable: NASA

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These 2 US cities are the most vulnerable to solar storms, scientists say

July 26, 2024

As we approach solar maximum — the most active period in the solar cycle — it's no surprise that scientists are looking into the effects of geomagnetic storms on Earth.

While increased solar activity often leads to brilliant showings of auroras, it also can wreak havoc on our technological systems here on Earth.

We most commonly see interference in radio transmissions during strong geomagnetic storms, but geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) have been known to take out power lines and transformers, too.

A team from the British Geological Survey (BGS) has evaluated the vulnerability of cities' power grids and determined that two American cities are especially at risk during a geomagnetic storm: Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Lauren Orr of the BGS suggests various reasons as to why these two cities are particularly vulnerable, including "electrical conductivity of the ground, the physical construction of the power grid in those areas, or the location of the auroral currents in the sky."

Now, this isn't a red-alert emergency yet — most solar storms we've experienced in the last 100 years haven't been strong enough to wipe out a power grid. But if something like the 1859 Carrington Event, the strongest recorded solar storm in history, were to happen again, the problems would be severe.

Orr therefore posits that we should monitor cities like Milwaukee and Washington, D.C., to further learn what can be done to protect their power grids.

"Network science is now a common tool to quantify the resilience and robustness of power grids to both deliberate attacks and those caused by random failures or natural disasters," she said in a statement.

"Having previously had great success using network science to uncover patterns within the auroral electrojet, we would again combine the fields of network science and space weather to capture the network response to GICs."

https://www.space.com/us-cities-at-risk-for-solar-storm-damage

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296768 (261519ZJUL24) Notable: The media is currently rewriting history in an effort to help the Harris campaign.

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https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1816819940155912413

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

REPORT: The media is currently rewriting history in an effort to help the Harris campaign.

Here are 5 hoaxes the media has launched in the past week.

5. CBS claims Trump is lying by saying Harris donated to Minnesota Freedom Fund, bailing out “dangerous criminals” during the George Floyd riots.

Harris promoted the fund on X and encouraged people to donate.

4. President Biden “dropped out” to save democracy.

Biden was forcibly removed by top Democrats who reportedly made threats after he indicated he wasn’t going anywhere.

3. JD Vance had s*x with a couch cushion.

The AP fact checked the claim as false but then removed the fact check because it “didn’t go through our standing editing process.”

2. Kamala Harris was not a DEI pick for Vice President.

President Biden made it clear in 2020 that he was picking his VP based on gender and skin color, confirming that Kamala was indeed a DEI pick.

1. Kamala Harris was never the Border Czar.

The media spent the past week scrubbing *their own* reports since 2021 that Kamala was in charge of the border.

Video: @FreeBeacon

6:56 AM Jul 26, 2024

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296799 (261528ZJUL24) Notable: NASA

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Falcon 9 Returns to Flight

July 25, 2024

SpaceX submitted its mishap report to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding Falcon 9’s launch anomaly on July 11, 2024.

SpaceX’s investigation team, with oversight from the FAA, was able to identify the most probable cause of the mishap and associated corrective actions to ensure the success of future missions.

Post-flight data reviews confirmed Falcon 9’s first stage booster performed nominally through ascent, stage separation, and a successful droneship landing.

During the first burn of Falcon 9’s second stage engine, a liquid oxygen leak developed within the insulation around the upper stage engine.

The cause of the leak was identified as a crack in a sense line for a pressure sensor attached to the vehicle’s oxygen system.

This line cracked due to fatigue caused by high loading from engine vibration and looseness in the clamp that normally constrains the line.

Despite the leak, the second stage engine continued to operate through the duration of its first burn, and completed its engine shutdown, where it entered the coast phase of the mission in the intended elliptical parking orbit.

A second burn of the upper stage engine was planned to circularize the orbit ahead of satellite deployment.

However, the liquid oxygen leak on the upper stage led to the excessive cooling of engine components, most importantly those associated with delivery of ignition fluid to the engine.

As a result, the engine experienced a hard start rather than a controlled burn, which damaged the engine hardware and caused the upper stage to subsequently lose attitude control.

Even so, the second stage continued to operate as designed, deploying the Starlink satellites and successfully completing stage passivation, a process of venting down stored energy on the stage, which occurs at the conclusion of every Falcon mission.

Following deployment, the Starlink team made contact with 10 of the satellites to send early burn commands in an attempt to raise their altitude.

Unfortunately, the satellites were in an enormously high-drag environment with a very low perigee of only 135 km above the Earth. As a result, all 20 Starlink satellites from this launch re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

By design, Starlink satellites fully demise upon reentry, posing no threat to public safety. To-date, no debris has been reported after the successful deorbit of Starlink satellites.

SpaceX engineering teams have performed a comprehensive and thorough review of all SpaceX vehicles and ground systems to ensure we are putting our best foot forward as we return to flight.

For near term Falcon launches, the failed sense line and sensor on the second stage engine will be removed. The sensor is not used by the flight safety system and can be covered by alternate sensors already present on the engine.

The design change has been tested at SpaceX’s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas, with enhanced qualification analysis and oversight by the FAA and involvement from the SpaceX investigation team.

An additional qualification review, inspection, and scrub of all sense lines and clamps on the active booster fleet led to a proactive replacement in select locations.

Safety and reliability are at the core of SpaceX’s operations.

It would not have been possible to achieve our current cadence without this focus, and thanks to the pace we’ve been able to launch, we’re able to gather unprecedented levels of flight data and are poised to rapidly return to flight, safely and with increased reliability.

Our missions are of critical importance – safely carrying astronauts, customer payloads, and thousands of Starlink satellites to orbit – and they rely on the Falcon family of rockets being one of the most reliable in the world.

We thank the FAA and our customers for their ongoing work and support.

https://www.spacex.com/updates/#falcon-9-returns-to-flight

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296831 (261536ZJUL24) Notable: Here’s J.D. Vance’s New Secret Service Codename Bobcat

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Here’s J.D. Vance’s New Secret Service Codename.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/26/heres-j-d-vances-new-secret-service-codename/

According to the Daily Mail, Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance has a new Secret Service codename:

“The longtime Ohio and Kentucky football fan is now known to the agents protecting him as ‘Bobcat,’ after teams of the same name,” writes the Mail’s Rob Crilly, adding: “Trump’s V.P. pick may have eventually gone to Ohio State, but Ohio University’s football team is known as the Bobcats.”

“And his Appalachian family is originally from Jackson, Kentucky, home of the Breathitt County Bobcats. This was where the young James David spent most of his summers and other vacations.”

Previous Secret Service code names include:

Donald J. Trump – “Mogul.”

Joe Biden – “Celtic.”

Barack Obama – “Renegade.”

George W. Bush – “Trailblazer.”

Ronald Reagan – “Rawhide.”

Mike Pence – “Hoosier.”

Kamala Harris’s codename is “Pioneer.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296863 (261543ZJUL24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Russian and Chinese jets are flying over our West Coast. Russian warships are now in Cuba, 70 miles off our Coast. What’s Kamala going to do?

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POTUS!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112853514252810317

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296885 (261547ZJUL24) Notable: Powerful wildfires devastating Canada captured in satellite imagery

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Powerful wildfires devastating Canada captured in satellite imagery

July 25, 2024

Quick-moving wildfires continue to burn across Western Canada, keeping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s GOES-R series satellites busy as they monitor hotspots and smoke plumes around the clock.

On Wednesday evening (July 24) in Jasper National Park, the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, thousands of residents and tourists had to be evacuated as powerful fires scorched through the southern part of the community.

According to the Associated Press, there were "significant losses" across the area as structures were burned to the ground and other nearby towns were also forced to flee.

These fires began on Monday (July 22) following a significant fire that also occurred in Western Canada on May 10; that fire, in British Columbia, expanded and burned more than 13,000 acres of land in just three days.

Firefighters, weather forecasters and community leaders rely on satellites to provide a wider scope of fire and smoke movement; they use images taken by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument aboard each of the GOES-R satellites to aid with such monitoring needs.

Using different spectral bands, the wavelengths from each of these instruments' channels can pick up smoke signals and identify hotspots during a wildfire, pinpoint the locations of those signals, and produce powerful images to paint a picture in near real-time of the growth and/or demise of each event.

By combining these snapshots with ground observations from officials and firefighters, even wildfire and smoke forecasts can be significantly improved.

This benefits firefighting efforts because it helps teams better understand each particular fire and also can help communities have more lead time to evacuate if a fast-moving blaze takes a quick turn when the winds shift or if new fires ignite from another's embers.

Wildfire smoke forecasts are also important for other parts of North America downwind of the plumes.

By detecting the intensity and movement of the smoke, air quality alerts can be issued to help communities, especially in major cities, prepare for the incoming impacts that at times can last for days and cause health issues — particularly for those with respiratory issues.

https://www.space.com/jasper-wildfire-national-park-satellite-images

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296886 (261548ZJUL24) Notable: FBI Trump questionnaire exposes 'divisive partisan politics' at bureau, former agent says

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FBI Trump questionnaire exposes 'divisive partisan politics' at bureau, former agent says

Former FBI agent and Fox contributor Nicole Parker said the questionnaire and other similar matters have inspired a loss

"Who approved… what is termed as the Trump questionnaire within the FBI that was done?"

"So the document you're asking about is an interview outline that we only recently learned about, and in my view is completely inappropriate," Wray said. "I asked my team to get to the bottom of what happened and to ensure that doesn't happen again. And I've learned that it's not an FBI form, that its use was isolated, that it was created not by an FBI employee, but by an outside contractor. And that individual is no longer affiliated with the FBI."

Parker also added that because of the questionnaire matter and other similar incidents within the FBI, "Americans and many FBI employees have lost trust."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-trump-questionnaire-exposes-divisive-partisan-politics-bureau-former-agent-says

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296905 (261553ZJUL24) Notable: NASA

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Discovery of 'dark oxygen' from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life

July 25, 2024

Potato-size metallic nodules strewn across the Pacific Ocean seafloor produce oxygen in complete darkness and without any help from living organisms, new research reveals.

The discovery of this deep-sea oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen," is the first time scientists have ever observed oxygen being generated without the involvement of organisms and challenges what we know about the emergence of life on Earth, researchers say.

"When we first got this data, we thought the sensors were faulty, because every study ever done in the deep sea has only seen oxygen being consumed rather than produced," study lead author Andrew Sweetman, a professor and leader of the seafloor ecology and biogeochemistry research group at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), said in a statement.

But when the instruments kept showing the same results, Sweetman and his colleagues knew they "were onto something ground-breaking and unthought-of," he said.

The results, published Monday (July 22) in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest that small metallic nodules found in the north Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) produce oxygen through seawater electrolysis, where seawater splits into oxygen and hydrogen in the presence of an electric charge.

This charge may come from the difference in electric potential that exists between metal ions within the nodules, which leads to a redistribution of electrons, according to the study.

So-called polymetallic nodules are common on the ocean's abyssal plains, which are flat regions of the seafloor between 10,000 and 20,000 feet (3,000 to 6,000 m) below the ocean surface.

These nodules mostly contain oxides of iron and manganese, but they also hold metals like cobalt, nickel and lithium, as well as rare earth elements such as cerium that are essential components of electronics and low-carbon technologies.

Sweetman and his colleagues originally set out to study the potential impacts of mining polymetallic nodules on the seafloor ecosystem in the CCZ, an abyssal plain spanning 1.7 million square miles (4.5 million square kilometers) between Hawaii and Mexico.

As part of this assessment, the team measured changes in oxygen concentrations using special experimental chambers at multiple locations.

Typically, oxygen levels decline the deeper in the ocean scientists look, as less light is available, meaning there are fewer photosynthetic organisms and therefore lower oxygen production.

But instead of the expected decline in oxygen, the data showed steady emissions from the seabed.

The discovery of dark oxygen 13,000 feet (4,000 m) below the waves, where no light can penetrate, challenges scientists' belief that Earth's oxygen is only naturally produced through photosynthesis (and through oxidizing ammonia, but this results in tiny amounts that are immediately consumed).

That, in turn, raises new questions about the origins of life on Earth roughly 3.7 billion years ago, Sweetman said.

"For aerobic life to begin on the planet, there has to be oxygen and our understanding has been that Earth's oxygen supply began with photosynthetic organisms," he said.

"But we now know that there is oxygen produced in the deep sea, where there is no light. I think we therefore need to revisit questions like: where could aerobic life have begun?"

The results also raise new concerns about potentially mining polymetallic nodules, which could represent a vital source of oxygen for deep-sea ecosystems, Sweetman said.

"Through this discovery, we have generated many unanswered questions and I think we have a lot to think about in terms of how we mine these modules, which are effectively batteries in a rock."

https://www.space.com/deep-sea-dark-oxygen-from-metal-lumps-evidence-for-origins-of-life

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296917 (261555ZJUL24) Notable: Suspected pedophile fatally shoots himself after predator hunter confronts him

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Suspected pedophile fatally shoots himself after predator hunter confronts him

July 26, 2024 | 11:39am

A suspected pedophile killed himself moments after he admitted to watching child pornography to a predator hunter outside his South Dakota home.

Donald Letcher, 60, confessed to watching graphic child porn to Predator Poachers founder Alex Rosen, who called in a police officer and got Letcher to acknowledge his heinous act before killing himself.

https://nypost.com/video/suspected-pedophile-fatally-shoots-himself-after-predator-hunter-confronts-him/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296952 (261601ZJUL24) Notable: U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution

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U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution

July 26, 2024

The U.S. military has begun to recognize the utility of small satellites, with programs like the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture leveraging smallsats for missile tracking and communications. However, a new report argues that the U.S. Space Force has yet to fully commit the resources to capitalize on this technology at scale.

“The Space Force, Congress, and the industrial base must adjust old paradigms built around large, legacy space systems with long and costly development timelines and move toward a hybrid approach that includes both smallsats and large, exquisite satellite systems,” says a report released July 25 by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

The report calls on the U.S. military to fully leverage the innovations in small satellite technology to enhance its space capabilities and maintain superiority in a contested domain.

Smallsats have become increasingly popular in both commercial and military applications due to their lower cost, faster production times, and ability to be deployed in large numbers.

This proliferation allows for greater resilience and redundancy in space operations, the report says, arguing that proliferation is crucial to maintaining what the military terms “space superiority” — the ability to operate freely in space while denying adversaries the same capability.

Smallsats, typically weighing less than 1,200 kg, have gained significant traction in recent years.

Commercial players like SpaceX and Planet have demonstrated the power of large constellations of small satellites for various applications, from global internet coverage to Earth observation.

Charles Galbreath, lead author of the report, says the Space Force must embrace the smallsat revolution or risk losing the high ground in space.

“Our adversaries, particularly China and Russia, are developing sophisticated counterspace weapons aimed at our legacy satellite systems.

SmallSats offer a way to enhance our resilience and operational capabilities in this new environment.”

The report recommends the Department of Defense boost production rates, strengthen supply chains, and increase funding to support large-scale smallsat deployment.

https://spacenews.com/u-s-military-urged-to-embrace-smallsat-revolution/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296954 (261601ZJUL24) Notable: @RonnyJacksonTX DJT's doc speaks out

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POTUS retruth!

https://truthsocial.com/@RonnyJacksonTX/112853602771172822

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21296955 (261602ZJUL24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Biden-Harris Administration’s List of Accomplishments

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Biden-Harris Administration’s List of Accomplishments

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112849059779999877

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297003 (261610ZJUL24) Notable: Trump shooter had depressive disorder

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Trump shooter had depressive disorder: Fmr. Secret Service agent

“We’ll need to go back and draw a timeline of his behaviors, and certainly, his internet searches are part of that. … Him researching assassins is definitely a sign. But as we know, America’s fascinated with assassins,” Eckloff added.

According to the FBI, on July 6, the day Crooks registered for the Butler rally, he also ran a Google search on his computer asking how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from President John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

Crooks, a 20-year-old nursing home employee who graduated from community college last spring, had searched online for information about Trump and Biden and had photos of both men on his phone.

The newspaper also reported that photos of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and a member of the British royal family were also on Crooks’ phone. Wray testified that Crooks was using an encrypted messaging app on his phone.

A search of Crooks’ phone by the FBI also determined that he had conducted online searches about a shooting in which a teenage gunman, Ethan Crumbley, killed four high school students in Michigan as well as information about major depressive disorder, the rally in Butler, and the Democratic National Convention.

NBC News reported other online searches run by Crooks in the months leading up to the rally included one on explosive materials and chemical compounds as well as improvised explosive devices and the Department of Homeland Security.

The report indicated there were more than 14,000 links and photos found on Crooks’ phoneincluding one photo of the rally that was taken before Trump took the stage.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks-motive/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297060 (261619ZJUL24) Notable: #26101

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297153 (261638ZJUL24) Notable: July 30 National Whistleblower Day Continues Tradition of Celebrating Whistleblowers

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Whistleblower Network News: National Whistleblower Day Continues Tradition of Celebrating Whistleblowers

National Whistleblower Day Continues Tradition of Celebrating Whistleblowers

This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here.

On July 30, whistleblowers, advocates, and government officials will gather on Capitol Hill to celebrate National Whistleblower Day. The day continues a tradition of celebrating whistleblowers, which predates the designation of July 30 as National Whistleblower Day.

As whistleblower supporters gear up to celebrate on July 30, WNN looks back on the history of the day and the organized celebrations of whistleblowers.

https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/whistleblower-network-news-national-whistleblower-day-continues-tradition-of-celebrating-whistleblowers/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297217 (261651ZJUL24) Notable: No return date set for Starliner crew

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No return date set for Starliner crew, NASA says

Updated: Jul 26, 2024 / 06:27 AM CDT

NASA and Boeing leadership confirmed Thursday that a return date for the Starliner crew awaiting voyage back to Earth has yet to be set.

Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and Mark Nappi, Boeing’s vice president and program manager of the Boeing Commercial Crew Program, provided updates on the Boeing Starliner mission and the two astronauts who are on the 49th day of what was supposed to be eight days in orbit at the International Space Station.

Stich confirmed there is still no return date for the Starliner crew and said NASA’s top priority is to bring the astronauts back to Earth safely.

Engineers last week completed testing on a spare thruster in the New Mexico desert to try to understand what went wrong during docking and to prepare for the trip home.

Five thrusters failed as the capsule approached the ISS on June 6, a day after liftoff. Four have since been reactivated.

“The last several weeks have been really helpful in understanding the helium and thruster anomalies and how to address these problems for future flights,” Nappi said.

“That’s been the real goal here, is to be able to address future flights and gain the confidence that we needed for this mission.”

The Starliner capsule has been docked at the International Space Station since June 6. It should have returned with its NASA test pilots by mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks prompted NASA and Boeing to extend its stay.

Boeing had previously said that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams could use the Starliner to return to Earth immediately if the situation demands it, but that’s not the case. Both Wilmore and Williams said they were confident they’d return home safely despite the delay.

NASA and Boeing said the capsule’s batteries are performing well despite the extended stay.

“I feel confident that if we had to, if there was a problem with the International Space Station, we could get in our spacecraft, and we could undock, talk to our team, and figure out the best way to come home,” Williams said in a press conference last week.

Although Sunday was the end of the 45-day stay the mission was approved for, NASA and Boeing reassured the public and astronauts it was safe to stay in the capsule at the ISS past the mission’s initial window.

Starliner was plagued with issues before it even launched. The spacecraft’s launch was scrubbed twice, including one right before liftoff. Helium leaks were also reported.

Both agencies did not indicate when the astronauts will return to Earth but are hopeful for a return in the coming weeks. There also has been no word on whether the agencies plan to use another spacecraft to get the astronauts home.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/nasa-boeing-starliner-mission-update/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297218 (261651ZJUL24) Notable: Florida AG Ashley Moody on Thursday announced civil and criminal court victories over abortion activists attacking pregnancy centers.

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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Thursday announced civil and criminal court victories over abortion activists attacking pregnancy centers.

Last March, Moody sued members of the violent anarchist groups Antifa and Jane’s Revenge for vandalizing three Florida crisis pregnancy center buildings and threatening their staff and clients in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling on abortion.

After the Supreme Court’s decision was leaked to overturn Roe v Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, pro-abortion activists and members of “criminal organizations sought to silence and intimidate crisis pregnancy centers’ workers and clients nationwide by vandalizing or even setting fire to their buildings,” Moody said at the time.

Two Antifa and Jane’s Revenge members, Caleb Hunter Freestone of Miami and Amber Marie Smith-Stewart of Ocoee, participated in at least three attacks against Florida crisis pregnancy centers, The Center Square first reported. Moody’s office also filed a civil action against additional defendants Annarella Rivera and Gabriella Victoria Oropesa, alleging all four defendants violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act.

On Thursday, Moody announced her victory securing a settlement, with several defendants pleading guilty to felonies in federal court. The settlement results in a civil judgment and a permanent injunction. Restitution will be ordered to compensate the victim clinics. One defendant will be ordered to pay a $10,000 civil penalty. The defendants who plead guilty face up to 10 years in prison.

The defendants are also permanently banned from being physically present within 100 feet of any crisis pregnancy center.

“We will not allow radicals to threaten and intimidate women seeking help from crisis pregnancy centers or the counselors and health care professionals serving these women and their babies,” Moody said. “In Florida, illegal actions have consequences, and I am proud of the work our attorneys did in this case to make sure these extremists were held accountable.”

The FACE Act provides for civil and criminal penalties against anyone who “by force or threat of force … intentionally … intimidates or interferes with or attempts to … intimidate or interfere with any person because that person is or has been … providing reproductive health services.”

According to the complaint, in May 2022, the defendants damaged the property of South Broward Pregnancy Help Center in Hollywood, including spray painting threats on its property stating, “If abortions aren’t SAFE then neither [sic] are you.”

In June 2022, defendants damaged the property of LifeChoice crisis pregnancy center in Winter Haven, spray painting their facility with threats including “YOUR TIME IS UP!!”; “WE’RE COMING for U.”

In July 2022, defendants damaged the property of Heartbeat of Miami pregnancy center in Hialeah, spray painting threats on its building, including “If abortions aren’t safe the [sic] neither are you.”

The centers offer free counseling, pregnancy testing, and ultrasound examinations to expectant mothers.

After the Supreme Court’s decision was leaked, dozens of incidents of “arson, vandalism, property theft, and property destruction,” as well as protests, bomb threats and assaults were initially reported against churches, prolife organizations, and individuals.

In June 2022, Jane’s Revenge called on activists to disrupt society, saying “we need the state to feel our full wrath … We need them to be afraid of us” and “whoever you are and wherever you are, we are asking for you to do what you can to make your anger known … To those who work to oppress us: If abortion isn’t safe, you aren’t either. We are everywhere.”

After 19 attorneys general requested the U.S. Department of Justice investigate violence being committed against pro-life groups in June 2022, the FBI said it would investigate the attacks being committed against prolife and faith-based groups.

It remains unclear when the FBI’s findings will be published.

https://thecapitolist.com/florida-ag-defeats-antifa-janes-revenge-activists-in-court/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297224 (261651ZJUL24) Notable: Barrack and Michelle Obama’s endorsement of Kamala Harris

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Barrack and Michelle Obama’s endorsement of Kamala Harris

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-barrack-and-michelle-obamas-endorsement-of-kamala-harris

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297257 (261657ZJUL24) Notable: 2023 NYC Mayor Adams demands ‘national czar’ for migrant crisis — a job Vice President Harris is already supposed to have

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>I’ve got an idea, anons that collected articles and memes of Kamala as Border Czar we flush them out on the internet, with dates and links. They cannot possibly disappear that her title if border Czar! Since she failed so miserably how can she be President?

"and i haven't been to europe"

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297264 (261658ZJUL24) Notable: Kamala is stunned when she's actually called out on her lies

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The blank stare at the end is glorious.

Kamala is stunned when she's actually called out on her lies.

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1816503563272806524

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297282 (261701ZJUL24) Notable: 2023 NYC Mayor Adams demands ‘national czar’ for migrant crisis — a job Vice President Harris is already supposed to have

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>>195177

>and i haven't been to europe"

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297293 (261703ZJUL24) Notable: Akima lands $480 million Space Force contract to modernize Satellite Control Network

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Akima lands $480 million Space Force contract to modernize Satellite Control Network

July 25, 2024

The U.S. Space Force awarded Akima’s subsidiary Five Rivers Analytics a $480 million 10-year contract to support and modernize the Satellite Control Network — a decades-old system of 19 globally distributed parabolic antennas spread across several locations worldwide.

Akima, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned defense contractor, won the contract dubbed STORMS (Satellite Control Network Tracking Station Operations, Remote Site and Mission Partner Support).

The STORMS contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement.

This type of contract allows the Space Force to procure services as needed over a specified period.

It succeeds the previous $445 million CAMMO (Consolidated Air Force Satellite Control Network Modifications and Maintenance Operations) contract won by CACI International in 2016.

The Space Force in June announced the first task order under STORMS, valued at $205 million, with a performance period from June 2024 to February 2030.

The Satellite Control Network supports the launch, tracking, control, and maintenance of U.S. government satellites, ensuring they can transmit and receive data effectively and remain operational.

In operation since 1959, the SCN is running out of capacity and in dire need of modernization, the Government Accountability Office warned in a report last year.

“Akima plans to integrate emerging technologies to enhance SCN’s operational efficiency and resilience,” the company said in a news release July 25.

“This aligns with Government Accountability Office recommendations for improving SCN capacity.”

Five Rivers Analytics, the Colorado-based Akima subsidiary, will be responsible for SCN maintenance, management of transportable assets, cybersecurity measures, routine system administration, and communications security functions.

https://spacenews.com/akima-lands-480-million-space-force-contract-to-modernize-satellite-control-network/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297300 (261704ZJUL24) Notable: PF: Gitmo express returning to base after a visit to Lauderdale…

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Gitmo express returning to base after a visit to Lauderdale...

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297317 (261707ZJUL24) Notable: (You) The REAL Reason Trump’s Assassin was not Eliminated on the Rooftop before Firing on Trump

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>That answer is total and complete incompetence from Secret Service.

that is a fucking lie.

they wanted him dead, and because the window closed as trump did the right thing and dived to the ground with the secret dei morans eventually have to protect him and sheild him otherwise they would have been called even moar incompement than they already looked the sniper took him out to make sure there were no witnesses.

Even parts of the Butler police were involved and knew crooks.

no fucking idiot leave a glaring sniper shooter position unguarded whilst they were dicking around in the building.

Benny Johnson knows better than to gaslight the anons

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21297318 (261707ZJUL24) Notable: (You) The REAL Reason Trump’s Assassin was not Eliminated on the Rooftop before Firing on Trump

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>>195180

>That answer is total and complete incompetence from Secret Service

bullshit

[they] would like us to think they are just bumbling stumbling fools

no

they are the masters of tyranny, complicit in murder, global terrorists and the very evil this world needs rid of

planned and coordinated accidents

Trump helped to plan this one in fine detail

KEK

which is why it failed so biblically

biblical boomerang