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Libera

Future Mission

Libera will record how much energy leaves our planet’s atmosphere on a day-by-day basis providing crucial information about how Earth’s climate is evolving over time. The mission will maintain a decades long data record of observation from NASA’s suite of Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

December 2027

Target

Earth

Objective

Measure solar radiation
Learn more about Libera
The Libera instrument is a new sensor that will fly on the next JPSS satellite targeted for launch in 2027, which will be named NOAA-22 once in orbit.
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