![]() The pair cost less than $20 million to construct, launch, and operate. Each MarCO was the smallest, cheapest spacecraft ever to fly beyond the Earth-moon system. In this diminutive mission, NASA as an agency, and the community of planetary science researchers, caught a glimpse of a future long sought: a pathway to much more affordable space exploration. InSight, the small spacecraft reported, had survived. The lander had separated from the back-shell and chute it was on rockets now. ![]() ![]() Its parachute had deployed, the cubes added. And engineers were only more pleased when the Deep Space Network, a global array of radio antennas, picked up the tiny explorers’ real-time signals from Mars. ![]() But just making it this far heralded a new age in space exploration. ![]()
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