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Recent Examples of satellitesThere are just currently just 12,500 or so operational satellites of any kind in orbit, according to the European Space Agency — meaning that two out of every three functional spacecraft right now is a Starlink satellite.—Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025 That allows Starlink's satellites to have lower latency and data time between user and the satellite, improving performance of things like streaming, online gaming and video calls.—Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025 These were collected by China’s GECAM satellites and NASA’s Fermi satellite.—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025 One of the WorldView Legion satellites also captured imagery of China's ShiJian-26 satellite in June.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 Since then, Burke County has added layers of redundancy by purchasing Starlink internet terminals that connect to satellites rather than towers, HAM radios and more satellite phones so emergency responders can keep talking when traditional systems fail.—Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
Rapidly spreading its toxic influence across the lands, Magatsu and its minions are a world-ending threat, and the early tutorial bit sees players square up against the baddie only to ultimately lose.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
What made Armani’s designs so appealing to Ovitz and his minions wasn’t just their confident power-suit cut.
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Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
Integrated blue force tracking allows soldiers to pinpoint the exact positions of teammates, not just as dots on a map, but within buildings or terrain features.
Local sheriffs and former Confederate soldiers were regularly among their ranks, and their actions helped lay the groundwork for the modern relationship between law enforcement, racial control, and political power in the South.
Over eight episodes, the brothers find themselves at the mercy of Mancuso — a former family friend — and his vicious henchmen, and they are forced to confront the emotional scars of growing up with an alcoholic father, who had gambled away his own restaurant.
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Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025
At the end of the episode, tragedy strikes when Robbie’s latest robbery ends in one of his henchmen and all of the drug house’s attendants dying.
The only character who seems entirely transparent is Frederik, who can’t hide his resentment of his second-class spousal status or his contempt for the sycophants and mediocrities who cling to his wife like barnacles.
To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
But together a picture emerges of a long-standing movement eager to stop anyone who attacks a principle or personality its adherents hold dear.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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