Astronomy:INCUS
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| Mission type | Weather |
|---|---|
| Operator | NASA |
| Website | https://incus.colostate.edu/ |
INCUS is a future mission by NASA to study why convective storms,[1][2][3] heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form.[2][4]
Overview
The spacecraft is 3 CubeSats funded and developed by NASA & JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) alongside Colorado State University and NOAA.[5] It is one of NASA's Earth Ventures Missions (EVM-3).[6] Its main goal is to enhance our understanding of why, when & where tropical convective storms form, to measure vertical air motion and why only a few storms produce extreme weather.[7] It will be launched by Firefly Aerospace.[8] It is a Class-D mission.[7]
Instruments
It will have Ka rain radars and a MW radiometer.[9]
Budget
The mission will cost around 177 million dollars.[3]
References
- ↑ "NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation - NASA" (in en-US). https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-service-for-mission-to-study-storm-formation/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "INCUS". https://incus.colostate.edu/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Taft, Rick (2024-05-14). "CSU-led satellite mission to study extreme weather moves into construction phase" (in en-US). https://www.atmos.colostate.edu/2024/05/csu-led-satellite-mission-to-study-extreme-weather-moves-into-construction-phase/.
- ↑ "INCUS - NASA Science" (in en-US). 2023-06-15. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/incus/.
- ↑ "INCUS (INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS) - eoPortal" (in en). https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/incus.
- ↑ "ESSP" (in en-US). 2022-07-26. https://essp.nasa.gov/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 van den Heever, Susan; Haddad, Ziad; Tanelli, Simone; Stephens, Graeme; Posselt, Derek; Kim, Yunjin; Brown, Shannon; Braun, Scott et al. (May 2022). "The INCUS Mission" (in en). EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts: EGU22–9021. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9021. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022EGUGA..24.9021V/abstract.
- ↑ "INCUS" (in en-US). https://fireflyspace.com/missions/incus/.
- ↑ "WMO OSCAR Details for Satellite Programme: INCUS". https://space-test.oscar.wmo.int/satelliteprogrammes/view/incus.
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