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

"Now we know what will happen when the sun dies"
""Weakly Address: 2/10/18""

Science Science News

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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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just visited the farthest object ever explored

VIDEO

By Sarah Kaplan
January 1 at 8:39 PM

As Earthlings marked the start of a new year, one of the most distant spacecraft successfully explored the farthest — 4 billion miles from Earth — and most primitive objects that humans have ever seen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/12/31/most-distant-space-encounter-history-is-happening-now/?utm_term=.6538590adb80