InSight Mars Mission Brought a First for NASA: Interplanetary CubeSats

Groundbreaking CubeSats
Yesterday, NASA’s InSight lander touched down successfully on the martian surface in a flawless feat of engineering.Two briefcase-sized satellites known as CubeSats followed the exploratory probe all the way from Earth to the Red Planet. These twin Cubesats are the first of their kind to ever travel to another planet, and are already, successfully relaying important data to Earth, connecting us to Mars like never before. In fact, these satellites tran