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Are we talking about almost instant planetary COMMUNICATION?

No still a delay, we can't beat the speed of light

What kind of antenna is that?

The large orange one is an X-band Deployable High Gain Reflectarray Antenna (DaHGR). Beneath #MarCO is a UHF antenna (seen in the top right photo). There's also 2 smaller X-band antenna inside.

@NASAJPL first of all congrats on the great success of the mission! My question: how long are the cubesats planned to be in service and what will their further activities be? Do you have goals to learn something from them outside of @NASAInSight ?

The MarCO CubeSATs completed their mission as relays (and amazing experiments in testing BIG science in small packages). There will be more to come with future CubeSATs because of these little pioneers. Here's a link for you: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php …

Minion satellites