#SpaceForce: #Firefly on the firing line. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 2 September 2023
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#SpaceForce: #Firefly on the firing line. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/firefly-notifies-space-force-that-it-is-ready-to-launch-military-payload-at-a-moments-notice/
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Search TFL Improvement Plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:31.9 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the website |
| 0:36.0 | behind the black. From the surface of the planet Earth, we're staying right here because there's |
| 0:40.4 | a lawsuit from Amazon investors. Something about SpaceX. What is the complaint, Bob? |
| 0:47.2 | This is, I actually surprised to take this wall for some Amazon shareholders to sue. |
| 0:52.6 | What Amazon has got, what it's called, it's a kyper constellation of satellites. They want to put up |
| 0:57.4 | 3,200 satellites to create a constellation to provide internet service to the world. Direct |
| 1:03.0 | competition to SpaceX and Starlink system, which by the way already has, I think, 5,000 satellites |
| 1:09.2 | in orbit, 3,000 to 4,000. I forget the number. I think it's over 4,000 moving close to their 5,000. |
| 1:15.2 | They've already got this and ordered both these systems with design and proposed the exact same |
| 1:20.1 | time while SpaceX is operational and has got like thousands in orbit. Amazon hasn't launched |
| 1:26.0 | a single one yet and they have to get half of their constellation up in orbit by 26 to meet their |
| 1:32.3 | requirements of the SEC license. Now, about a year and a half ago, the signed contracts with |
| 1:38.3 | the area on the space, ULA and Blue Origin for something like 80 launches to launch these satellites. |
| 1:45.6 | And Amazon investors are now suing because the question why SpaceX was not considered at all |
| 1:53.9 | as a potential launch customer. In fact, they're accusing Bezos having a conflict of interest |
| 2:02.6 | that he interfered with the negotiation process so that cash would go to Blue Origin, |
| 2:08.4 | which by the way, still has not launched an orbital rocket and we wait and it's about |
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