Japan's rumored "OPTI-K-V" constellation scale-down now has a dated primary-adjacent source

Both dates are well past the 7-day AGE DECAY cutoff — not pushable now or ever as news — but this closes the standing flag with a real source, and is a genuine ~50%…

1 in 271 items swept clears the bar·Brief of 3 August 2026, 03:46 UTC

The desk logged this but did not push it. A weak signal sits below the bar for a lead item — it is watched, not yet acted on.