ESA's Cosmic Vision Science Programme, CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite).

Telescopes?

True.

The real thing may have only been the size of a beach ball, but making Sputnik the same height as Yuri Gagarin was too good of an idea to pass up.

Comparative Image by Mike Gruntman, 2004

i've been doing an astronomy internship this summer, and we recently talked about the space telescopes! wanted to personify some of them hehe.

James Webb (they/them): Their shiny poncho thing is inspired by the solar shield. They have a rivalry with Hubble, believing him to be obsolete. However, they secretly are worried they won't be able to live up to his legacy.

Hubble (he/him): His glasses represent the COSTAR instrument that was installed on Hubble to correct it's blurry images. He finds James Webb's attempt at a rivalry amusing, and just wants to become friends with the younger fella and help them out.

Nancy Grace Roman (she/her): A telescope not yet launched, she's an old NRO telescope, and is having trouble adjusting from a life of espionage to one of science.

help! what's a DSCP and what does it have to do with 17776?

So you've stumbled into the DSCP tag and you think. What on earth is this madness. Is it an actual fandom? Why is this in the tag?

*Spin around and whips off my shades* Hi. I am Mimi! I'm the irl RP mod of DSCP the roleplay, and I play Riley, one of the in-character mods of DSCP the space program!

DSCP stands for Deep Space Communications program, it's the shorthand for us to keep track of a 17776/20020 inspired roleplay in a 17776 discord server.

The RP is set in the 17776 universe, all laws from the original web series applies (sentient space probes, immortal humans, etc.)

In universe, DSCP is a NASA program for humans to keep in touch with sentient spacecraft. It’s a chatroom styled RP takes place in a discord channel. You can learn more about the history of this fake space program in this blog’s about page.

It’s considered a “stream” because it is “broadcasted” to the public, like how the 17776 trio’s conversations are in canon! DSCP could be considered a “space probe discord server with like, one channel“ to Juice/10/9’s “space probe group chat”.

At one point, we decided to fuck around with the idea of fake “fandom blogs”, who reacts to the DSCP chat when it’s live and enjoy it like ye average mainstream media. The DSCP fake fandom is an ironic exploration of a typical tumblr fandom, complete with fanart, discourses and parasocial relationships with the stream's casts. These are all make believes! The muns are all very nice irl.

There’re only a few people who actively plays around in the fake fandom space, but they have multiple blogs so it might give the illusion of it being “a huge fandom”. It’s not! All of the fake fandom blogs’ posts are tagged with #unreality, or it will be written in their bios, to differentiate from average RPer who are just posting about their OCs.

The tags we use are #dscp, #dscpcast and #dscp probecast.

Finally, if you’ve read this far into the explanation of our nonsense and still feel like you want a hand in this, DM me! I’ll give you an invite link to the server. The rest of the server is still a 17776/20020 fan space, so you can feel free to hang out if you aren’t interested in the RP.

Hey out of curiosity, have you ever considered recording your drawing process/making a speedpaint?, I really love your art and I have always been curious as to what your process is like. and your recent heavypaint paintings have rekindled this curiosity of mine!. Btw sorry for this long ask.

Thank you so much for the question (and compliment)! Why yes! I've never gone through with it in the past out of fear of my computer going up in flames upon rendering literal hours-long footage. However, HP actually has a timelapse function built in which made things a hell of a lot easier!

So here it is, the overdue robinwaaaaa dot tumblr dot com speedpaint... The sick beats were obligatory:

[04/10/1957] — Бип...бип...бип...

History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. It was around the size of a beach ball, weighed 83.6 kg (183.9 pounds), and took about 98 minutes to orbit Earth on its elliptical path. This ushered in a new age of political, military, technological, and scientific developments, and although the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.

artfight attack for @robinwaaaaa! so glad i finally got to draw her

I don't even remember what the context for this one was.

Keep Calm and

XX21

They try their best 💔