These Cubesats transferred the signal that announced that InSight landed.
Maybe a tiger can jump out when I get to the Cubesats.
Among these, 88 Cubesats are Earth-imaging Dove satellites operated by Planet Labs company.
Cubesats are not just for commercial applications,
and NASA intends to use them for planetary exploration.
Over the past week, two Cubesats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B have been firing their propulsion systems to
guide themselves toward Mars.
This first success may push NASA and other space agencies to consider Cubesats as interesting tools for exploring the solar system.
The MarCO Cubesats, nicknamed EVE and WALL-E, were
launched in 2018 to test if such low-cost technology can operate in deep space.
This pressure on prices is already present on the Cubesats, which can now take off for $ 250,000,
while it cost $ 400,000 a few years ago.
Just as the ISS
NanoRacks deployment program pushed out 33 new Cubesats in a span of a few weeks- I
guarantee not all of them are‘ideas never flown by humanity.'.
The MarCOs were never intended to collect any science data; instead, they are a test of miniaturized communication and
navigation technology that can blaze a path for future Cubesats sent to other planets.