Hello, I'm new to this field and to this website; and I want to learn as much as possible (after reading Maxwell's Stirling's Handbook of FE, published this year). Two things are important for me to learn more about:

1. Satellites... is there any good book/literature on this that anyone can recommend? As a newcomer to this field, the satellite story is what I find the hardest to understand. I realizede like 3 years ago that the moon landing didn't happen, but I also realized why there was an interest in claiming to have landed on the moon. It's much harder to understand why people claim to have launched satellites, and yet not have done so. Can someone explain that? Why fill up space with pseudo-satellites?

2. Antarctica... Is there any good, comprehensive source that tells more about what's going on there? My follow-up question: can't you send drones across the border/the ice wall? If Antarctica goes around the entire Earth, there should be somewhere where you can't guard borders. Or am I wrong there? Please explain.