Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer News Today

The staff changes tap into a deep well of talent and experience across JPL as the laboratory looks to the future.

The staff changes tap into a deep well of talent and experience across JPL as the laboratory looks to the future.

Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station.

NASA has built small and inexpensive weather sensors to help forecasters track tropical cyclones. NASA constructed two weather instruments to test the capabilities of small, low-cost sensors in replicating the work of bigger and more expensive satellites.

Known as COWVR and TEMPEST, the duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role in weather forecasting.

A pair of microwave radiometers collected data on the storm as they passed over the Caribbean Sea aboard the International Space Station.

Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global humidity and ocean winds.

Not long after the first TEMPEST-D completed a successful three-year mission, an identical tiny satellite sensor developed by researchers at Colorado State University and NASA’s JPL is back in orbit.

SpaceX’s CRS-24 Dragon resupply spacecraft arrived the International Space Station with supplies and experiments for the seven-person Expedition 66 crew.

The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument is to measure the direction and speed of winds at the ocean surface, while the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) looks at atmospheric humidity.