Mars Cube One (MarCO) is a twin CubeSat mission developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to accompany the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Mars mission lander. MarCO's primary mission objective is to launch with InSight and independently fly to Mars to serve as a communications relay during InSight's entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase. MarCO represents a new type of deep space mission: CubeSats at Mars. Building on the development of JPL's first interplanetary CubeSat project, the Interplanetary Nano-Spacecraft Pathfinder in Relevant Environment (INSPIRE), MarCO further refined the approach to hardware, software, and ground architecture development to solve the challenges of quickly building low-budget spacecraft to fly to Mars. The greatest constraint, beyond others typical of CubeSat missions, was time. The duration between MarCO's conception to completion of spacecraft assembly was less than two years - an unprecedented schedule for any planetary mission to date. Through necessity, MarCO has built on previous experience, procedures, systems, and development methodologies, defining a new niche for supporting larger primary missions. The MarCO spacecraft are poised to write a new chapter in deep space exploration.


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    Titel :

    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale


    Beteiligte:
    Schoolcraft, Josh (Autor:in) / Klesh, Andrew (Autor:in) / Werne, Thomas (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    SpaceOps 2016 Conference ; 2016 ; Daejeon, Korea, Republic of


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    16.05.2016



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale

    Schoolcraft, Josh / Klesh, Andrew / Werne, Thomas | Springer Verlag | 2017


    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale

    Werne, Thomas / Klesh, Andrew / Schoolcraft, Josh | NTRS | 2016


    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development On a CubeSat Scale

    Schoolcraft, Joshua / Klesh, Andrew T. / Werne, Thomas | AIAA | 2016


    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale

    Schoolcraft, Josh / Klesh, Andrew / Werne, Thomas | NTRS | 2016


    MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development On a CubeSat Scale (AIAA 2016-2491)

    Schoolcraft, Joshua / Klesh, Andrew T. / Werne, Thomas | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2016