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Starship Soars: Flight 11 Triumphs and V3 Sets Sights on the Stars
In the grand theater of space exploration, where rockets roar like impatient dragons and the stars wink with quiet approval, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 11 took center stage on October 13, 2025, and delivered a performance worthy of an encore. After a year that saw the Version 2 prototypes endure their share of dramatic explosions—three mid-flight…
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The Universe in Silico: Euclid’s Flagship 2 Simulation and the Philosophy of Cosmic Models
Mapping the Immeasurable In late 2025, the Euclid Consortium — the international group responsible for managing the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope — announced the release of the most extensive simulation of the universe ever produced. Called Flagship 2, it is not merely a technical achievement but a landmark in our species’ attempt to…
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From Apollo’s 20-Watt Radio to Modern Milliwatt Signals: The Evolution of Space Communication
The Apollo Moon missions of the late 1960s relied on a 20-watt S-band transmitter to send voice, telemetry, and even television from the Moon to Earth. In stark contrast, many modern communication systems – from tiny CubeSat spacecraft to Internet-of-Things devices – can make do with transmit powers thousands of times lower, sometimes mere milliwatts…
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Sending Your Name to Space: A Cosmic Journey of Connection
Imagine your name orbiting the Moon or resting on the surface of Mars. NASA has turned this fanciful idea into reality through its “Send Your Name to Space” campaigns. By simply signing up online, people around the world can join NASA missions symbolically – their names encoded on microchips or memory cards that hitch a…
