Honey, I shrunk the satellites: How CubeSats are taking space missions by storm - The Federal

The US space agency Nasa is readying a micro-oven-sized robotic spacecraft, CAPSTONE, to send to the moon soon. Not long ago, MarCO- A and B, two briefcase-sized probes, trailed Nasa’s InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars. The MarCO twins were the communica…

The US space agency Nasa is readying a micro-oven-sized robotic spacecraft, CAPSTONE, to send to the moon soon. Not long ago, MarCO- A and B, two briefcase-sized probes, trailed Nasa’s InSight spacec… [+157 chars]

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