In the quiet arithmetic of cosmic violence, two neutron stars spiral toward each other across unimaginable distances, and humanity has decided it wants to watch. NASA has contracted SpaceX to carry a small but purposeful observatory called StarBurst into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rideshare flight no earlier than 2028, tasking it with capturing the gamma-ray flash that erupts when such stellar remnants collide. The mission, born from NASA's Astrophysics Pioneers Program, reflects a maturing philosophy: that profound questions about the universe need not demand extravagant answers, only precise on