Rocket Lab Launches NASA Satellites to Study Hurricanes From Space
The first two of four TROPICS cubesats lift off from New Zealand.
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The first two of four TROPICS cubesats lift off from New Zealand.
--The 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' launch was the first of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of hurricane monitoring satellites for NASA
NASA and Rocket Lab USA, Inc. launched two small satellites into orbit from New Zealand on Monday to study hurricanes and other cyclones more frequently.
NASA is finally, once again, scheduled to get its constellation of small, storm-monitoring satellites into space after a 2022 launch failure tanked two of the…
A joint mission from the federal space agency and Rocket Lab aims to loft four cube satellites across two launches and acquire hourly data on extreme storms.