Correction: an earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the University of Arizona is building NASA’s LunaH-Map cubesat. Arizona State University is building the cubesat. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew flying cubesats all the way to Mars was a long shot. Its twin Mars Cube One spacecraft had to travel hundreds of millions of kilometers on their own propulsion and relay data from the agency’s Insight lander as it descended onto the Red Planet.During that nearly seven-month journey in 2018, one of the MarCO cubesats suffered a fuel leak, and both briefly lost...…Correction: an earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the University of Arizona is building NASA’s LunaH-Map cubesat. Arizona State University is building the cubesat. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew flying cubesats all the way to Mars was a long shot. Its twin Mars Cube One spacecraft had to travel hundreds of millions of kilometers on their own propulsion and relay data from the agency’s Insight lander as it descended onto the Red Planet.During that nearly seven-month journey in 2018, one of the MarCO cubesats suffered a fuel leak, and both briefly lost...WW…
The satellites Maxar will build are named Galaxy-31, Galaxy-32, Galaxy-35 and Galaxy-36; the satellites from Northrop Grumman are named Galaxy-33 and Galaxy-34. All six are expected to be ready for launch in 2022, according to their manufacturers.Please enable JavaScript to view the…The satellites Maxar will build are named Galaxy-31, Galaxy-32, Galaxy-35 and Galaxy-36; the satellites from Northrop Grumman are named Galaxy-33 and Galaxy-34. All six are expected to be ready for launch in 2022, according to their manufacturers.Please enable JavaScript to view theWW…