08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... be pushing the limits of experimental technology. Now well past Mars, the daring twins seem to have reached their limit. ... unlikely they'll be heard from again. MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a class of ...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
... it will be joined on its journey by two CubeSats called Mars Cube One, or MarCO for short. These two will also be testing key...deep space before, or use propulsion to point their way towards Mars. We hope to blaze that trail." With the prospect of ...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...lines and look for plumes. Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Interplanetary challenges Interplanetary CubeSats, thanks to their low-cost...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... the InSight spacecraft, led by Bruce Banerdt at JPL, to probe the interior of Mars using a seismometer. In parallel, JPL has developed the MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... also have sufficient capability to perform interplanetary exploration, such as with NASA’s recent launch of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) flyby mission to Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
..., eventually leading to more marvelous deep-space missions following the first inter-planetary CubeSats MarCO-A and B (Mars Cube One)," said F. Brent Abbott, CEO of NanoAvionics North America. "The technology demonstration using NanoAvionics' 12U bus...
