For The First Time, Two Cubesats Have Gone Interplanetary

Eric Berger, Ars Technica
Mon, 05/07/2018 - 8:03am

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two CubeSats at Mars. (credit: NASA) The first CubeSats launched in 2003, and in less than a decade more than 100 had reached orbit around Earth. The aerospace industry has debated whether the 2kg to 15kg microsatellites are a fad, a toy, or more significantly a disruptive technology that will change they way we ultimately observe and study Earth and the rest of the Solar System.

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