Questions tagged [marco-cubesats]
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How can the two MarCO cubesats remain reliably close to InSight during their six month trip to Mars?
According to the NASA JPL web page Mars Cube One (MarCO) Mission Overview and the YouTube video MarCO: First Interplanetary CubeSat Mission linked there, after the Centaur upper stage deploys InSight, ...
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Where is the camera on the MarCo cubesat that took this “pale blue dot” type of photo of the Earth and the Moon?
Where is the camera on the MarCo cubesat that took this "pale blue dot" type of photo of the Earth and the Moon?
Is there an official NASA web site for photos from the MarCo cube sats? This one is ...
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If a MarCO-type CubeSat were in orbit around Bennu, what kind of power would it need to communicate with the Deep Space Network?
This is a follow-up question to: What is the lowest power signal that the DSN can detect?
Essentially, I have determined that the asteroid Bennu (ranging from 25 to 350 million kilometers from Earth) ...
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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:
The most I can gather from casual NASA articles is along the lines of:
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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 ...
