The Double Asteroid Redirection Test— Launched November 24 2021, Impacted September 26 2022— Was

A scheming pirate lackey from the retrofuture!

Happy Halloween from NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

ESA's XMM-Newton

s!

S for Prof. Samsa (a.k.a. Phoropter Guy or Traveller)!

He's a peculiar foreigner from a place far away who likes to smoke pipes that smell of nutmeg. Strange things tend to happen in his immediate vicinity and every time you see him he always has a different suitcase. Currently, he's writing a dissertation on human culture.

Daylight's Yanaba Jahre space probe

I'd like to see Explorer in his army uniform, even though he's supposed to be a 'civilian' satellite. I mean, they didn't almost name him 'Top Kick' for nothing! On an unrelated note, I do not support the War in Viet Nam!

Hey presto! Launch provider cosplay!

The Explorer program was a pitch from the US Army, it competed directly with the Navy's Vanguard for the title of America's first satellite, and amongst its plethora of banging potential names also included "Highball", "Deal" and "Missile 29" (which I love). But having been mainly built by JPL citizens, I didn't give my personification of their first satellite much military flair—nor much of a closet for that matter—so this was a fun prompt to shake things up!

At first, the sheer amount of uniforms tore me on what would be best fit and that's JUST counting the 50s iterations, but then I thought it'd be a great moment to introduce his near-identical siblings who could just model in his place. Two birds, one stone! Meet 3 and 4. :-)

Fresh out of the oven - ALGOR-EAT-THEM, a song about a cannibal describing how they want to lovingly butcher and consume you, and definitely nothing else. ;)

Vel and Co. with an emphasis on Co.

IT’S COMICS TIME

OC Alphabet Soup

Send me a letter of the alphabet A-Z, and if I have an OC starting with that letter, I'll tell about them.