Launches/INCUS

INCUS

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Firefly Aerospace · Wallops Flight Facility, United States · 2027-12-31 · 00:00:00 UTC

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Lift-off: 2027-12-31
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Vehicle

Firefly Alpha Block 2

Orbit

LEO

Crewed

Mission

Earth Science

Operator

Firefly Aerospace

Mission Details

PayloadINCUS

Mission typeEarth Science

Launch siteWallops Flight Facility · Launch Area 0 A

OrbitLEO

Operator agencyFirefly Aerospace

CountryUnited States

Date2027-12-31

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The Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) is a NASA Earth science mission led by Colorado State University that will investigate the behavior of tropical storms in order to better represent these storms in weather and climate models. It consists of 3 SmallSats flying in tight coordination to study why convective storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form. Each satellite will have a high frequency precipitation radar that observes rapid changes in co

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