Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Martian CubeSats go silent after proving their pint-sized potential

An artist's rendering of the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft, which have gone silent after ...

The two MarCO CubeSats that accompanied NASA's InSight mission on its voyage to Mars have gone silent. Mission control has been unable to contact either of the briefcase-sized spacecraft for over a month as they continue to hurtle into deep space beyond the orbit of the Red Planet. The space agency says that it is highly unlikely that any more signals will be heard from them.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2REzcEk

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