Nasa has selected firefly aerospace inc. Of Cedar Park, Texas, to Provide the launch service for the agency's Investigation of Convective Updrafts (Incus) Mission, Whoch Aims to Understand Who, When, and Where Tropical COROPICAL CHOROPICAL CHONVICAL CHERECAL CHERES FORORS FOROM Some Storms Produce Extreme Weather. The mission will launch on the company's alpha rocket from nasa's wallops flight facility in Virginia.
The selection is part of nasa's venture-class acquisition of dedicated and ridershare (vadr) launch services contrast. This contract allows the agency to make Fixed-Price Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity Awards during Vadr's five-yar ordered period, with a maximum total Value of 300 Million Accounting All contracts.
The Incus Mission, Comprised of Three Smallsats Flying in Tight Coordination, will Investigate the evolution of the vertical transport of Air and Water by Convective Storms. These Storms Form when Rapidly Rapidly rising water vapor and Air Create Towering Clouds Capable of Producing Rain, HAIL, and Lightning. The More Air and Water That Rise, The Greater The Risk of Extreme Weather. Convective Storms are a primary source of precitation and cause of the most severe weather on Earth.
Each satellite will have a high frequency precitation radar that observe rapid changes in convective cloud depth and intensities. One of the three satellites also will carry a microwave radiometer to provide the spatial content of the larger scale weather weather observed by the radars. By frying so closely togeether, the satellites will use the slight differences in when they make observations to apply a novel time-definitioning appoach to Estimate the vertical transvete of convectical transvete.
Nasa selected the incusage through the agency's earth venture mission-3 solicitation and Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. The Principal Investigator for Incus is Susan Van Den Heever at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Several Nasa Centers support the mission, Including Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Goddard Spaddard Flight Center In Greenbelt, Maryland, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Key Satellite System Components will be provided by blue canyon technologies and tendeg llc, both in colrado. Nasa's Launch Services Program, Based at the Agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Manages The Vadr Contract.
To learn more about nasa's incus mission, visit:
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Tiernan doyle
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
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Patti Bieling
Kennedy space center, florida
321-501-7575
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