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Rocket Lab Launches NASA’s Final Set of Hurricane Monitoring CubeSats

Rocket Lab Launches NASA's Final Set of Hurricane Monitoring CubeSats - top government contractors - best government contracting event

Rocket Lab USA has deployed the second and final set of NASA’s low-Earth orbit small satellites designed for tropical cyclone and hurricane monitoring.

The CubeSats were launched aboard an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand to complete the agency’s four-piece TROPICS constellation or Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats that will collect tropical storm intensity data to help improve the forecasting, modeling and analysis of high-impact tropical cyclones, Rocket Lab said Friday.

The “Coming To A Storm Near You” mission is the second Electron launch that Rocket Lab conducted for the TROPICS program.

It follows the “Rocket Like a Hurricane” mission launched on May 8 in partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services, Blue Canyon Technologies and MIT Lincoln Labs.

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Written by Naomi Cooper

is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.

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