NASA's new TROPICS small satellite constellation 'has the real potential to save lives,' said Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck.
Rocket Lab launched a pair of NASA CubeSats to orbit aboard the company's Electron launch system, almost a year after another rocket failed to send the first of the small satellites into space.
Roughly 35 minutes after launch, the Electron booster deployed the two Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats CubeSats into orbit.The TROPICS CubeSats were designed to monitor the development of tropical storms. According to The system will provide hourly updates that will help monitor hurricane formation as well as other tropical weather systems.
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