What's Next For Tiny Satellites?

A cubesat, like this briefcase-sized MarCO, was key to relaying telemetry during the recent InSight mission to Mars. It was the first time this kind of mini-spacecraft had flown into deep space.

Two briefcase-sized satellites gave the control room of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November what scientists had never been able to get before: real-time information about a spacecraft's landing.

(Image credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)



from Technology : NPR https://n.pr/2TcoC8C

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