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Recent years has seen a marked increase in the planetary community’s interest in Venus after decades of near-neglect. Part of this renewed interest is to understand […]
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
Whenever a hurricane threatens the US, the Hurricane Hunter aircraft flown by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the US Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Life is filled with firsts and one of the more memorable ones from my youth was my first visit to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on […]
A key component of NASA’s infant space science program was Project Vanguard. Originally developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as America’s first official satellite program […]
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