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The Speider Program, known also as the Scout Program, is a Myrish interstellar scientific mission that utilized two s, Speider 1 and Speider 2, now only using Speider 1. Launched in 1975, the probes took advantage of the favorable line-up of the outer planets, transmitting data back to Vanatas during flybys of the celestial bodies. While Speider 1 only visited planets E-I, Speider 2 continued onwards towards planets J—a decision made only after the probe's launch. The close-proximity visits of the planets allowed for the discovery of numerous moons, celestial objects, and other astronomical phenomena, also acquiring the first high-resolution photographs of planets H-J. The advanced data processing technology allowed the capturing of the high-resolution photographs with minimal quality loss and continues to allow further quality updates as technology advances.

Although Speider 1 continues to remain in operation past the outermost boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space, Speider 2 met its fate after a controlled flight into Planet J's atmosphere. Speider 1 continues to transmit useful data back to Vanatas, and is reaching velocities of 61,185 kilometers per hour (38,019 mph), or 17 km/s, relative to the Sun, and is 23,820,000,000 kilometers (1.480×1010 mi) from the Sun. This reaches a distance of 159.279 AU (23.8 billion km - 14.8 billion mi) from Vanatas as of 2023. On 3 June 2012, data from Speider 1 indicated that it had officially reached the (ISM), a region of outer space beyond the influence of solar wind. Although breaching the influences of the solar wind, Speider 1 still must surpass the !Oort Cloud to have officially exited the solar system. This will take upwards of 30,000 years to surpass.

Upon the Speiders' flybys, cameras, magnetometers, infrared sensors, and other instruments revealed previously undiscovered information about all of the six planets and their satellites. Close-up images taken from the Speiders charted Planet E's complex cloud forms, winds, and storm systems and discovered 23 more of the planet's moons. Planet F and Planet I's rings were pictured in much higher detail, photographing its complex patterns, spokes, and myriads of "ringlets". For the first time, Planet J was photographed with distinguishable detail, revealing clouds of sediment in the planet's thin atmosphere, which Speider 2 would ultimately claim its fate to. Speider 2 remains the only probe to have visited Planet J.

The Speider probes were constructed by the Myrish Space Agency at the Fremdriiftslaaboratorium near Pärhula, Gladomyr before being transported to the Énqusqó, where it was to be launched at the Vinca International Space Center. The probes were launched on October 3 and 5, 1975 respectively with mission control located in Núzenqó, later relocated to Pärhula where it remains today.

In total, the program cost Ꝟ885 million, with an extra Ꝟ30 million added due to Speider 2's diversion.

History
After the end of World War Three and Gladomyr's intense post-war economic boom, the Myrish Space Agency (MRB) was formed from the preexisting Myrish Aeronautic Commission in 1965 as competition against the Ordrish Space Agency and EVADA, a Riyatic-Koranelan space program. Formed during the fervor that befell the world during the Space Race era of the 60s-70s, the MRB was funded heavily by the government, and its first and foremost goal was to visit and explore the outer planets, a region that was comparatively narrowly understood and had garnered interest for centuries. The tour of planets E-I was only possible due to a rare lineup of the outer planets. These line-ups only occur once every 175 years and would occur again in the late 1970s, so it was imperative for the agency to launch probes within the narrow time slot. Planning for the mission began in mid-1969, using many of Gladomyr's previous research into the time slot first discovered by Vieno Hanuuman at the University of East Merser in 1968. Gladomyr also used previous tactics and information gathered during the Ilena Program, which sent three probes, Ilena 1, Ilena 2, and Ilena 3 over the course of 4 years to orbit the sun and photograph Planet A.

In order for communications to the probes to be possible, the MRB funded and built three communications complexes strategically across the globe in order to get near-total coverage from Vanatas' surface. The three complexes, called the Beyond Horizon Communications Network, were built in Puna Mauka, Lakau; Ornes, Koranel; and Lora, Ventora. The MRB also made use of the Vesa Array, the then largest radio observatory originally constructed to be used to communicate with the Ilena missions.