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Design and components
Launch and cruise
Similar missions beyond Earth orbit
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- Closest approach
- 26 November 2018, 19:52:59 (2018-11-26UTC19:52:59) UTC
- Contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- Declared
- 2 February 2020
- Disposal
- Abandoned In Solar Orbit
- Distance
- 3,500 km (2,200 mi)
- Last contact
- MarCO-A: 4 January 2019 (2019-01-04) MarCO-B: 29 December 2018 (2018-12-29)
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Overview
Launch and cruise
Objectives
Design and components
- UHF
- Circular polarization
- X band
- Directional antenna
- Beamwidth
- Patch antenna
- Reflectarray Reflectarray antenna
- Cold gas thrusters Cold gas thruster
- Reaction control system
- Attitude Spacecraft attitude control
- Star tracker
Similar missions beyond Earth orbit
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Mars Cube One
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Important terminology
cubesats mission mars insight marco earth cubesat spacecraft one relay orbit data cube communications landing nasa missions space lander antenna
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars Cube One | Closest approach | 26 November 2018, 19:52:59 (2018-11-26UTC19:52:59) UTC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Contractor | United Launch Alliance | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Declared | 2 February 2020 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Disposal | Abandoned In Solar Orbit | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Distance | 3,500 km (2,200 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Last contact | MarCO-A: 4 January 2019 (2019-01-04) MarCO-B: 29 December 2018 (2018-12-29) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Launch date | 5 May 2018 (2018-05-05), 11:05 UTC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Launch mass | 13.5 kg (30 lb) each | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Launch site | Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-3E | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Manufacturer | JPL | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Mission duration | MARCO A: 7 months and 30 days MARCO B: 7 months and 24 days | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Mission type | Communications relay test Mars flyby | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Operator | NASA | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Reference system | heliocentric | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Rocket | Atlas V 401 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Spacecraft type | 6U CubeSat | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | Website | www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mars Cube One | is a | first CubeSat mission to go beyond Earth orbit | 0.90 | text |
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