Launches8 x CYGNSS
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8 x CYGNSS
Pegasus XL · Earth Science
2016Cape Canaveral, Air launch to orbit
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Orbital ATK
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Cape Canaveral
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2