36 – Systems Engineering InSight (feat. Farah Alibay)

This year is a Mars launch window, and NASA is taking full advantage of it with their Discovery-class InSight mission. This little lander will launch in May and land on Mars in November. Farah Alibay is a Payload Systems Engineer on this mission, and she joins Jake to talk about InSight’s objectives, integrating the instruments with the spacecraft, and the MarCO technology demonstrator.

• NASA’s InSight Landing Page
• InSight’s Wikipedia
• InSight unfurls its solar panels ahead of launch

• Episode 2: Every Twenty Six Months (February 2016)
• Episode 18: The State of Mars 2017 (January 2017)
• Episode 35: The State of Mars 2018 (January 2018)

• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Twitter and Instagram
• Farah’s Instagram

• Website (www.wemartians.com)
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• Jake’s Twitter (@JakeOnOrbit)

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