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What Time Feels Like on Mars; And Why It’s Weird
Posted in Science on 4th Dec, 2025
by Alexander Muller
If humans ever settle on Mars, or send long-term robotic missions, we’ll have to rethink timekeeping entirely: adjusting to longer days, longer years, shifting seasons, and subtle relativistic effects on clocks.
The Orbit Crisis: Why We Can’t Keep Treating Space like a Trash Bin
Posted in Science on 3rd Dec, 2025
by Alexander Muller
Satellites, rocket bodies, and fragments from past missions are piling up in orbit, creating a growing cloud of debris that threatens future launches and the satellites we depend on every day.
Starlink’s Next Leap: Turning Orbit Into a Cell Network
Posted in Business, Hardware, Online, Science on 3rd Oct, 2025
by Alexander Muller
The Direct-to-Cell constellation could mark the biggest leap in connectivity since the rise of mobile networks themselves, erasing dead zones and making satellite coverage a seamless part of everyday life.
Spaceport 2.0: Turning Starship Launches into Airport-Style Operations
Posted in Business, Science on 3rd Oct, 2025
by Alexander Muller
Despite how grand the spaceport vision is, SpaceX isn’t losing sight of Mars. They remain committed to launching Starship missions toward Mars in 2026, and that the infrastructure and production scaling from Plan 2.0 feed directly into that mission.
Starship Flight 11: The Next Big Test for SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 3rd Oct, 2025
by Alexander Muller
This mission from SpaceX is designed to push forward what was learned in Flight 10, while experimenting with new configurations and maneuvers that will be critical for the next generation of their launch systems.