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The Speider Program, known also as the Scout Program, is a joint Myrish-Vatupic 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. Currently, Speider 1 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 in part by the Myrish Space Agency at the Fremdriiftslaaboratorium near Pärhula, Gladomyr before being transported to the Vatupic Space and Aeronautics Agency headquarters in Citana, Riyata for further construction, including the addition of numerous instruments including the and the. The two probes were then transported via boat to the Vinca Space Port in the Republic of Enqusqo, then still owned by Riyata. 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. This was the first major launch at the Vinca Space Port. The cooperation between the two agencies was the first of its kind and paved the way for further missions between the two agencies.

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 send the first probe to photograph planet I, a planet that was narrowly understood and had garnered interes for centuries. This particular goal gained the interest of the newly formed Vatupic Space and Aeronautical Agency in 1970—the successor of EVADA—which had had a similar mission that was scrapped several years earlier. After meetings between officials from both entities, the pair agreed to collaborate in the newly named Speider Project, meaning "scout" in the Myrish language.

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 two agencies to launch probes within the narrow time slot. Planning for the mission began in mid-1971, using many of Gladomyr's previous research into the time slot first discovered by Vieno Hanuuman at the University of East Merser in 1968