🚀Launchpad

Payload / Mission

8 x CYGNSS

Type
Earth Science
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

CYGNSS or Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System is a NASA developed system to improve hurricane forecasting. It is a constellation of 8 small observation satellites, 27.5 kg each, that will make accurate measurements of ocean surface winds in and near the eye of the storm throughout the lifecycle of tropical cyclones, typhoons & hurricanes.