NASA Creates Weather Sensors With Dynamic Abilities!
Both COWVR and TEMPEST show that smaller, less expensive scientific instruments can contribute significantly to weather forecasting. Recently, NASA created a pair of weather instruments to evaluate the viability of using small, inexpensive weather sensors to replace some of the functionality of larger, more expensive satellites. Both devices have performed quite well in their test phases, and they are already providing accurate forecasts for the most destructive storms, tropical cyclones.
In late 2021, the?Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer?(COWVR) and the?Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems?(TEMPEST) will be sent to the?International Space Station . The purpose is to record wind speed and direction at the ocean’s surface and atmospheric water vapor. The United States Space Force supported the development of both sensors through the?Space Test Program-Houston 8 (STP-H8), a three-year demonstration mission. The TEMPEST spacecraft was originally constructed by NASA as a flight spare for a different mission but was later converted by Space Force for use in STP-H8.
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