Article 3PMN1 NASA's Tiny, Mars-Bound Satellites Have Successfully Signaled Home

NASA's Tiny, Mars-Bound Satellites Have Successfully Signaled Home

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George Dvorsky
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NASA's InSight lander is on its way to Mars following Saturday's successful launch of an Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. But the lander is not alone-it has a pair of twin communication CubeSats in tow. Called MarCO-A and MarCO-B, the tiny machines have already passed the first"

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