Video: These tiny satellites could take on NASA's riskiest missions
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At the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, NASA is preparing tiny satellites the size of briefcases for a mission to Mars.
Called CubeSats, swarms of these small marvels could potentially take on NASA's riskiest missions—think exploring the surface of Venus or the volcanoes of Io—at a lower cost than full-size, multi-instrument satellites.
Matt Davenport and JPL Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft Andrew Klesh geek out on CubeSats in the latest Speaking of Chemistry episode.
Watch the video here:
Provided by American Chemical Society