NASA Hears MarCO CubeSats Loud and Clear from Mars
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's MarCO mission was built to see whether two experimental, briefcase-sized spacecraft could survive the trip to deep space, and the two CubeSats proved more than able. After cruising along behind NASA's InSight for seven months, they successfully relayed data back down to Earth from the lander during its descent to the Martian surface on Monday, Nov. 26.