{"id":87428,"date":"2019-02-05T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/so-long-marco-and-thanks-for-the-radio-transmissions"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:42:35","slug":"so-long-marco-and-thanks-for-the-radio-transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/so-long-marco-and-thanks-for-the-radio-transmissions","title":{"rendered":"So long, MarCO, and thanks for the radio transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/so-long-marco-and-thanks-for-the-radio-transmissions.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says it does not expect to receive any more transmissions from the MarCO CubeSats that accompanied the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/insight-has-landed.html\">Insight lander to Mars<\/a> last year. The two tiny spacecraft, which relayed Insight\u2019s descent signal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/0501-marco-cubesats-to-mars.html\">back to Earth in real time<\/a>, have not been heard from in more than a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/mars\/mars-approach-from-marco-b.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"Mars approach from MarCO-B\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/so-long-marco-and-thanks-for-the-radio-transmissions.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/test.html\">https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/test.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says it does not expect to receive any more transmissions from the MarCO CubeSats that accompanied the Insight lander to Mars last year. The two tiny spacecraft, which relayed Insight\u2019s descent signal back to Earth in real time, have not been heard from in more than a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}