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Satellites to measure hurricane winds

NASA funds CYGNSS mission

Started by Waspie_Dwarf , Jun 23 2012 12:45 PM

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#1 Waspie_Dwarf

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 12:45 PM

NASA funds satellite mission to measure hurricane winds

www.spaceflightnow.com said:

NASA's decision this week to fund a University of Michigan proposal to build a small satellite constellation, the first full mission award in the agency's low-cost Venture-class Earth science program, could help forecasters predict the intensification of tropical cyclones.

Data from the mission will help researchers study how tropical cyclones grow stronger over warm ocean waters, and meteorologists could use real-time information to help formulate hurricane forecasts.

The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, will receive $151.7 million from NASA over the next five years. Eight microsatellites will launch together in 2017 on a single rocket, then deploy in low Earth orbit.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:39 PM

I wonder if this will end the need for the hurricane hunter planes to fly through the storms.

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