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18 questions linked to/from How can the two MarCO cubesats remain reliably close to InSight during their six month trip to Mars?
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How does the pattern on the MarCo cubesat's antenna boost data-transmission?
I was looking at a few posts that uhoh had made about the MarCo cubesat. One of the pictures was the one that I've posted below:
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The most I can gather from casual NASA articles is along the ...
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Could a cubesat propel itself to Mars?
I wrote the answer below to the question Could a cubesat be propelled to the moon? before realizing that it said Moon and I'd written it for Mars, so I've cloned that question and moved the answer ...
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Will Perseverance's landing be live streamed?
I know that the launch will be live streamed, but I am interested in the landing.
Is there a plan to make it possible for the general public to get access to landing video as soon as mission control? ...
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Why would InSight's arrival date at Mars be fixed, and independent of the launch date?
Despite the 34 day long launch window, the day that InSight will arrive has already been chosen. See mars.nasa.gov's insight mission timeline below, a site I found linked in this answer.
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IRIS Transceiver for LEO Missions?
My professor really wants to know if the IRIS transceiver, which flew on MarCo, will be used in LEO. In fact so much that he doesn't accept "no" for an answer. I have searched for an example but found ...
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What are the absolute maximum dimensions of a proper 6U cubesat? Does ASTERIA comply?
At one point there were formal specifications for cubesat dimensions. I know it's a bit larger than precisely $10m \times 10n \times 10$ centimeters, where $m=1, 2$ and $n=1, 2, 3$ but I am not sure ...
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How do Voyager 1's Trajectory Control Thrusters differ from its Attitude Control Thrusters?
There are several popular news items about the recent test of Voyager 1's Trajectory Control Thrusters to see if they can be used for attitude control to facilitate communication with Earth. The ...
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How do probes locate themselves?
There's no way for any probe that is sent to orbit/land on a distant body to get there only on precalculated flight parameters alone - minuscule errors in the beginning of flight would convert to huge ...
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Can we go anywhere in space with only THREE reaction wheels and ONE chemical thruster?
I had a discussion the other day with some of my peers and they were very keen on the fact the it is possible to change your orbit as desired using a single thruster and a three reaction wheels. The ...
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What stole the INSPIRE cubesat launch opportunity, and will there be another?
Doing research for this answer about interplanetary cubesats, I watched the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory YouTube channel video CubeSats (live public talk) of a talk by Dr. Andrew Klesh, Chief ...
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What will (or did) end of mission look like for the MarCo cubesats?
These two 6U's are the farthest cubsats from Earth.
Are they still talking to us and being talked to?
With loss of remaining propellant for momentum unloading needed for high-gain antenna pointing ...
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MarCo, Polo? Any further news, or images, or transmissions from the MarCo deep space cubesats?
Edit: Two more months have gone by since I posted this question. Can there still be no news? Nothing for the two MarCo cubesats to take photos of; not even each other?
While InSight is still "...
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How are Voyager's 16 thrusters oriented? Table that enumerates them and specifies directions quantitatively
Question: How are Voyager's 16 thrusters oriented?
UPDATE: Per the 2nd half of my comment below:
...Since there was no activity here I decided to add the bounty to get this wrapped up. There are 16 ...
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InSight's Mars touchdown on 26th November 2018
According to information on Mars InSight Mission official website, InSight is set to land on November 26 at approximately 15:00 EST (excluding pre & post-landing news conference). I am staying in ...
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Did the MarCo cubesats photograph each other or the Centaur stage from which they were deployed?
The screenshot below is an artists rendering of two MarCo cubesats and a Centaur upper stage moving together in space. I'm wondering if either of the MarCos photographed the other or the upper stage ...
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