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Amazon and United Launch Alliance will launch 27 full-scale satellites on April 9 as part of Amazon's Project Kuiper, marking the company's first major step toward building a global satellite internet network to rival SpaceX's Starlink. GeekWire reports: ULA said the three-hour window for the Atlas V rocket's liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida is scheduled to open at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) that day. ULA is planning a live stream of launch coverage via its website starting about 20 minutes ahead of liftoff. Amazon said next week's mission -- known as Kuiper-1 or KA-1 (for Kuiper Atlas 1) -- will put 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers). ULA launched two prototype Kuiper satellites into orbit for testing in October 2023, but KA-1 will mark Amazon's first full-scale launch of a batch of operational satellites designed to bring high-speed internet access to millions of people around the world. [...] According to Amazon, the Kuiper satellite design has gone through significant upgrades since the prototypes were launched in 2023. Amazon's primary manufacturing facility is in Kirkland, Wash., with some of the components produced at Project Kuiper's headquarters in nearby Redmond. The mission profile for KA-1 calls for deploying the satellites safely in orbit and establishing ground-to-space contact. The satellites would then use their electric propulsion systems to settle into their assigned orbits at an altitude of 392 miles (630 kilometers), under the management of Project Kuiper's mission operations team in Redmond. Under the current terms of its license from the Federal Communications Commission, Amazon is due to launch 3,232 Kuiper satellites by 2029, with half of those satellites going into orbit by mid-2026.

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Sean sends us a one-line function that is a delight, if by delight you mean "horror". You'll be shocked to know it's PHP.

function proget(){foreach($_GET as $k=>$v){if($k=="h"){$GLOBALS["h"]=1;}$p=explode(",",$k);}return($p);} //function to process GET headers

Based on the comment, proget is a shorthand for process_get_parameters. Which is sort of what it does. Sort of.

Let's go through this. We iterate across our $_GET parameters using $k for the key, $v for the value, but we never reference the value so forget it exists. We're iterating across every key. The first thing we check is if a key "h" exists. We don't look at its value, we just check if it exists, and if it does, we set a global variable. And this, right here, is enough for this to be a WTF. The logic of "set a global variable based on the existence of a query parameter regardless of the value of the query parameter" is… a lot. But then, somehow, this actually gets more out there.

We explode the key on commas (explode being PHP's much cooler name for split), which implies… our keys may be lists of values? Which I feel like is an example of someone not understanding what a "key" is. But worse than that, we just do this for every key, and return the results of performing that operation on the last key. Which means that if this function is doing anything at all, it's entirely dependent on the order of the keys. Which, PHP does order the keys by the order they're added, which I take to mean that if the URL has query params like ?foo=1&h=0&a,b,c,d=wtf. Or, if we're being picky about encoding, ?foo=1&h=0&a%2Cb%2Cc%2Cd=wtf. The only good news here is that PHP handles the encoding/decoding for you, so the explode will work as expected.

This is the kind of bad code that leaves me with lots of questions, and I'm not sure I want any of the answers. How did this happen, and why are questions best left unanswered, because I think the answers might cause more harm.

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