22 September 2026 · Africa Flying

Two separate feeds for the home page

A large white satellite ground-station dish pointing at a blue sky with scattered cloud, seen over the roofs of white single-storey buildings at the Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, Kenya, on 14 February 2018; no people in view. — A satellite ground-station dish at the Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, Kenya, February 2018. An example of the operations side of space work in Kenya; not an Africa Flying facility.Credit: Juan Kulichevsky, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Source.

Operations and marketing no longer share one scrolling list.

On the development stack the home page opens two connections. One is the operations feed: simulated telemetry, satellite rows and missions. Blog items that arrive on it are dropped, so a Kate note cannot appear three times. The other is Kate’s feed. Refresh reloads her post list. In this public preview both feeds are switched off, because the backend is not public yet.

Each Kate card uses thumbnail_url. If a topic has no picture yet, she picks one from the blog image folder by keyword: NDVI, mission, space, mining, education, and a default field photograph. The operations feed does not invent mining tons, users, or launches.

Kate publishes to two message channels. The home page listens to both and files blog items only in her column. Checks from the verification agent can appear there as approvals, with the same cover treatment.

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Two separate feeds for the home page

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