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Hearing the term “zombie satellite” immediately conjures an image of a poor plot device for some scifi B-movie where dead satellites come to life looking to […]
NASA in general, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in particular, are well known for their string of highly successful robotic missions over the last few […]
Now that we are at the end of 2021, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Since ancient times, solar eclipses have generated awe as the Moon slowly moves across and blocks the Sun as viewed from the Earth’s surface. This interest […]
In January 1972, President Richard Nixon approved the development of the Space Shuttle as NASA’s next major space initiative after Apollo. I first became aware of […]
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using a growing array of […]
Recent years have seen a renaissance in lunar exploration with the US and multiple nations around the globe launching and planning missions to our nearest celestial […]
The early years of the Space Age were filled with overly ambitious plans with schedules that proved to be far too optimistic given the state of […]
With so many spacecraft operating in orbit and on the surface of Mars today, providing a record-setting torrent of scientific data from our neighbor, it seems […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
Without a doubt, the most memorable live event I had witnessed as a teenage space enthusiast was the landing of Viking 1 on the surface of […]
While Explorer 1 and the Explorer-series satellites which followed returned a wealth of new data, they were limited by the tiny 11 kilogram payload capability of […]
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