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I think you're right on the manifest.
Amazon standing up their own satellite mass production from scratch is a lot. They launched the two prototype satellites in Oct '23. It's a huge step from just two to making design updates from the first launch and cranking out dozens for the next launch then 1+ per day for the rate they need to hit. There's been such a big gap since the protos and so little news that 5+ launches in the next 12 months seems impossible unless they already quietly have these things piling up and filling some warehouse and payload processing facility.