The TROPICS cubesats lifted off today (May 7) from New Zealand.
The two cubesats, the founding members of the agency's TROPICS network, launched today atop aAbout 33 minutes after liftoff, the Electron deployed the shoebox-sized TROPICSA Rocket Lab Electron booster carrying 2 of NASA's TROPICS hurricane satellites launches into orbit from a pad on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand on May 8, 2023 local time .Rocket Lab will launch the other two satellites about two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan.
The TROPICS cubesats will measure the hour-by-hour formation and progression of tropical cyclones and"We'll be getting data that we've never had before, which is this ability to look in the microwave wavelength region in the storms, with hourly cadence to look at the storm as it forms and intensifies," TROPICS principal investigator Bill Blackwell said during a prelaunch press conference on April 28.
Researchers for the TROPICS program in NASA's Earth Science Division, such as Will McCarty, see missions like TROPICS as part of an innovation leap to augment much heftier, weather-focused satellites. "It's the cubesat revolution," McCarty told reporters during the April 28 press conference."In complementing the larger
, we are also getting some new innovation as well in these tiny compact sizes … These cubesats are about the size of a loaf of bread. So I would really like to stress the innovation on this mission."
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