Article 607MR These little satellites could bring big advances to tropical storm forecasts

These little satellites could bring big advances to tropical storm forecasts

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Justine Calma
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hurricaneida2.0.jpeg Hurricane Ida is seen in an image taken aboard the International Space Station in August 2021. | Image: European Space Agency via NASA

NASA is gearing up to launch tiny satellites into space that will help forecasters keep a closer eye on tropical storms as they develop in a mission called TROPICS. Crucially, if the launches are successful, the satellites will mark a big advancement in our ability to watch rapidly intensifying storms.

At the moment, NASA's weather satellites can only check in on a storm every four to six hours. So we're missing a lot of what's happening in the storm," Bill Blackwell, principal investigator for the TROPICS mission and a researcher at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, said in NASA's announcement yesterday.

Image: NASA/NOAA Images taken from current weather satellites. Both the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder...

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