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Star Way of Humanity: American Space Art
During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my archives discovering all sorts of items I had not seen in many years. Among the forgotten treasures I...
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Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004
During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites)...
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GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023
Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the Moon blots out the entire disk of the...
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Tropical Weather Analytics and Phantom Space Partner on Hurricane Hunter...
Tropical Weather Analytics, Inc. (TWA), with a revolutionary 3D measurement capability for improved hurricane forecasting and weather intelligence, is announcing a strategic partnership with Phantom...
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NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the characterization of Earth’s magnetic field and the discovery of what became known as the Van Allen radiation...
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First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968
The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests over civil rights, race relations and...
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Top Ten Posts of 2023
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see which of the new essays I posted during this site’s seventh year online, along...
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The Dream: The First Probe to the Moon
The past decade or so has seen a marked increase in interest to reach the Moon for exploration as well as the potential exploitation of its resources. Not only are today’s major space powers involved...
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Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from...
The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our abstract about our Hurricane Hunter Satellite...
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Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts
I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. In that first article, “A Europa-Io Sample Return Mission”, I...
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Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission
Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around 1966 when I was about four years old after my mother sat...
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Epsilon Indi’s Super Jovian Exoplanet – Background & New Observations by JWST
On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to...
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An ISS Success Story: CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from...
The team at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our poster about our previous work on the ISS, CyMISS, and our current Hurricane Hunter...
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First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection of satellites. These images, in addition to supplying...
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First Pictures: Color View of the Earth & A Tropical Depression from Space –...
While today we are inundated with color images of the Earth, our earliest views from space were confined to monochromatic or black and white images (see “First Pictures: The View of Earth from Space –...
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