Around this time back in 2018, the retirements of the Kepler and Dawn missions would have been announced or they would have already run out of fuel.
The missions are so interesting and it makes me a little nostalgic to read about. They're really important (also in terms of milestones and science) and wanted to do some tribute art + share some music I did that I named after them!
I'm not the best when it comes to music (I have no idea what I'm doing or what to do next 99.999% of the time) and I'm pretty proud of these especially, so I'm glad they've come to remind me of some pretty special missions
Also get some spacecraft nostalgia! Check out these 2009 archives of the missions <:)
Dawn Mission Home Page
Kepler Mission
"So how about that cosmic eye candy, huh?"
(background uses Spitzer images from this website)
Dawn my beloved
Ceres looking a little like the moon because i have to work within a simple style and in this case would be a little tricky to show texture
still a heck ton to do, she might be fit for rendering (well, viewport renders because the workspace is an absolute mess), but i still have to make sure her thrusters and extra things for expressions (ex the hands) are rigged properly and no major bugs appear
context because i have so many sillies
Enjoying the people, has a good time: Euclid, Cassini, Voyager 1, Lucy, Compton, Dawn, Gaia, Herschel, Opportunity, Spirit, Earth Return Orbiter, CALIPSO
Silent/standing in the corner of the part: Hubble, Fermi, Voyager 2, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, INTEGRAL, OAO-2, IUE, Mars Global Surveyor, also CALIPSO
Trashes the place, disables security cameras: Kepler, Chandra, Sojourner, DART, Juno, Mars Odyssey, Philae, also IUE
BLASTS MUSIC FROM THE LEAF ROOM (the big room with the speakers): MAVEN, Perseverance, IXPE, Spitzer, CloudSat, Psyche, also Philae
steals ESTEC sign from outside: James Webb, Swift, Ingenuity, also Psyche
got trapped in the CPTR (the room with the foam spikes): Curiosity, Rosetta, New Horizons, Landsat-9, OSIRIS-REx, InSight
knocked out on the golf course ragdolled: ICESat-2, also InSight, TESS, OCO-2, JUICE
READY TO BURN THE ENTIRE CENTER DOWN: Planck and Giotto
love how at the time of writing these are tied for probably my most popular post. im glad these managed to kinda blow up the way they did, however it happened <3
JUICE showing Europa Clipper around Ganymede!!!