Fave satellite?
A single favorite is impossible.
Cassini brought us data on Saturn before finally joining her, taking photographs all the way until the end.
The Parker Space Probe became the fastest object ever built on earth at 0.064% of the speed of light, 191 km/s, AND survived passage through the corona of our sun.
The Rosetta orbited a *COMET* and then its Philae probe *LANDED ON THAT SAME COMET*.
Hubble and JWST have both given us literal mountains of data to help us understand the shape and texture of the universe and its history.
The sheer number and variety of functions deployed through satellites is staggering, everything from the relatively mundane day to day work of accurate positioning and timing that underpins so much of our technology, all the way to devices designed for extremes barely imaginable from our perspective here on the ground.
Satellites are one of the few ways humanity can physically reach out into the wider universe, and I love them all.
