Electron Flight 49 | PREFIRE and ICE
PREFIRE and ICE deployed NASA's second PREFIRE CubeSat to a 525-kilometre orbit eleven days after the first launch. With both spacecraft in complementary near-polar trajectories, the mission could begin measuring how much far-infrared energy escapes from Earth's polar regions to improve climate, ice-loss, sea-level, and weather models.
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- PREFIRE and ICEPREFIRE-2Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment 2Electron F49Electron Flight 49
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- Electron Flight 49 | PREFIRE and ICE
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- PREFIRE and ICE deployed NASA's second PREFIRE CubeSat to a 525-kilometre orbit eleven days after the first launch. With both spacecraft in complementary near-polar trajectories, the mission could begin measuring how much far-infrared energy escapes from Earth's polar regions to improve climate, ice-loss, sea-level, and weather models.
- End Date
- 2024-06-05
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- Outcome
- Successfully deployed the second PREFIRE climate-science CubeSat
- Program
- PREFIRE
- Start Date
- 2024-06-05
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- Creation Time
- July 19, 2026 at 05:21:30 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 05:21:30 UTC
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