Maintenance in progress

only 14 commodity carriers transited the strait of hormuz on july 8 — the lowest since the mid-june interim deal — as us strikes on iranian targets resumed for a second day and trump declared the ceasefire over. the us space force repositioned surveillance satellites over concern iran could jam gps signals used for commercial navigation and precision munitions. a near-halt of one of the world's main oil chokepoints combined with orbital repositioning is a rare simultaneous stress on physical and space infrastructure.

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