The ISS is roughly football-field-sized, sits about 250 miles above Earth, travels at about 17,500 mph, and completes an orbit every ~92 minutes, circling Earth about 16 times per day. Its orbit is inclined about 51.6° to the equator, so its ground track passes over more than 90% of Earth’s population and it never goes…
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The iPhone 16 Pro Max uses a Grade 5 titanium frame, is 6.9 inches tall—the largest iPhone ever—with Ceramic Shield, IP68, four finishes including Desert Titanium, and a reintroduced Dynamic Island plus a new Action Button. Its display is a 6.9-inch 2868×1320 OLED with ProMotion 120Hz, up to 3000 nits peak brightness, Always-On, and wide…
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S25 series on January 22, 2025 and officially launched the S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra on February 7, 2025. All S25 models use Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (3nm) with on‑device Oryon CPU cores and an upgraded NPU, delivering about 37% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU versus the Snapdragon 8 Gen…
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All Redmi Note 14 models use a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, with the Pro and Pro+ offering a 2712×1220 1.5K resolution and up to 3000 nits brightness, while the base Note 14 sticks to 2400×1080 with around 2100 nits and HDR10+ support on the Pro variants (Dolby Vision on the Pro models).…
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The Sony Xperia 1 VI uses a 6.5-inch OLED with 1080×2340 resolution and a 19.5:1 aspect ratio, offering 1 Hz to 120 Hz refresh and about 50% higher brightness than the Xperia 1 V. The Asus ROG Phone 9 features a 6.78-inch Samsung E6 AMOLED at 2480×1116 with a default 165 Hz refresh rate, up…
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The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus use an aluminum frame with color-infused glass backs in Black, White, Pink, Teal, and Ultramarine. The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max use a Grade 5 titanium chassis with a micro-blasted texture, finished in Natural, Black, White, and Desert Titanium. The iPhone 16 Pro measures 149.6×71.5×8.25 mm and weighs…
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OnePlus 13 Pro offers dual IP ratings (IP68 and IP69) for dust and water resistance, with a weight of about 210 g and a thickness around 8.5 mm. The phone uses a 6.82-inch LTPO 4.1 AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution (3168×1440), 1–120 Hz adaptive refresh, and up to 4500 nits peak brightness. A 6000 mAh…
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On Aug. 14, 2025, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 missions 12 hours apart, first from Vandenberg with 24 Starlink satellites and then from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites, with deployments confirmed and boosters recovered at sea (one on its 10th flight). These back-to-back flights brought SpaceX’s 2025 Falcon 9 count to 99 and pushed…
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In July 2021, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo carried a full crew above 80 km. In 2023, Virgin Galactic began commercial service for private space tourists. Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital flights cross the Kármán line at about 100 km and last 10–15 minutes. The first Blue Origin seat was auctioned for $28 million, with routine prices…
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