Tag Archive for 'MarCO'

InSight Successfully Lands on Mars, Sends First Images

Nov 27, 2018 by News Staff

After an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458 million km) journey from Earth, NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down Monday, November 26,...

This image from NASA’s MarCO-B (known as ‘Wall-E’ to the MarCO team) CubeSat shows the spacecraft’s unfolded high-gain antenna at right and the Earth and the Moon in the center. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA’s MarCO-B CubeSat Captures Earth-Moon Image

May 16, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s MarCO-B spacecraft — one of two CubeSats accompanying the space agency’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and...

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off with NASA’s InSight spacecraft, seen through a thick fog blanketing Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Image credit: NASA.

NASA’s InSight Mission Launches to Study Mars’ Interior

May 5, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars InSight mission successfully launched today at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California,...

This artist’s concept shows two MarCO CubeSats and the Mars lander InSight. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Two CubeSats Will Accompany NASA’s InSight Lander to Mars in 2016

Jun 15, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s two small Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats will be flying past Mars in 2016 just as the agency’s next Mars lander, InSight (Interior Exploration...