Author: Lucy Connolly / Source: unilad.co.uk
NASA’s WALL-E satellite has not been heard from for more than a month, with the space agency considering it unlikely it will be heard from again.
The small satellite (also called MarCO-A) left the Earth’s orbit in May last year, becoming one of the first to do so along with its fellow cube satellite MarCO-B, aka EVE.
The two MarCO spacecraft, named after the Pixar characters of the same names, have not communicated with NASA for more than a month and it’s possible the devices may have reached their limits.
NASA released a statement on Tuesday (February 5), making the announcement and admitting that the ‘twins’ will likely never be heard from again.
Andy Klesh, the mission’s chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said:
This mission was always about pushing the limits of miniaturised technology and seeing just how far it could take us. We’ve put a stake in the ground. Future CubeSats might go even farther.
The government space agency admitted MarCO’s success was ‘measured by survival’, stating that the satellites were already pushing the limits of…
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