Okay so maybe it’s slightly cooler than a little bit of wocka-chicka music, but robot satellites maintaining a hard-core autonomous connection still gets our juices flowing:

ST. LOUIS, April 19, 2007 - Satnews Daily - The two robot satellites in the Orbital Express mission have achieved their second historic first with the successful transfer of hardware—in this case a battery—between orbiting spacecraft.

Remember kids, second historic firsts are almost as neat as third future ex-spouses, or something. . .

ASTRO and NEXTSAT exchange batteries, and possibly so, so much more. . .

“Hey baby, you come to this orbital plane often?”

“Does that work on all the robots in the exosphere or just the semiautonomous ones?”

“C’mon baby, how’s about you and me link up? I got some solar sails that only flare for you. . .”

And so on and so forth. . .

BTW, this is way cooler than it needs to be. Your tax dollars at work my friends. . .

[Thanks RICK!]

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