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Monday, 06/04/2018 12:09:24 AM

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NASA's Tiny and Block-Shaped 'CubeSats' Correct Course and Head Toward Mars

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Jonathan Kesh Saturday, 02 June 2018 - 4:17PM


NASA/JPL-Caltech

A typical spacecraft is large, bulky, and extremely expensive. A CubeSat is not a typical spacecraft.

CubeSats are a fairly new and low-budget spacecraft that's about the size of a small briefcase and very easy to transport as a result. Naturally, NASA has made some of their own,
and just recently launched two CubeSats named MarCO-A and MarCO-B - short for "Mars Cube One" - on the same rocket that fired their larger Mars InSight lander into space.

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[YouTube of embed] - NASA’s First Deep Space CubeSats


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8ZEAPrrHQ

With links - https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/18539-nasa-tiny-cubesats-mars


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