NASA will host a prelaunch news conference today, Feb. 5, at 9 a.m. EST, to discuss the agency's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. This follows the NASA and SpaceX launch readiness review Sunday, Feb. 4, resulting in a "go" for launch. Participants for the briefing include: Jim Free, NASA associate administrator Karen St. …
I'll take "All About PACE" for 300, please. While not exactly like "Jeopardy!", PACE trivia is just as fun – and often as challenging! To prepare for the upcoming launch of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite, PACE team members, friends and family gathered on Feb. 4 for an afternoon of facts, food, …
Officials from NASA will discuss the agency's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission during a science briefing at 11 a.m. EST today, Feb. 4. The briefing will air live on NASA+. NASA participants include: Kate Calvin, chief scientist and senior climate advisor Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division Jeremy Werdell, PACE project scientist Andy Sayer, …
NASA's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft is one step closer to launch. Workers transported the spacecraft to SpaceX's hangar at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday, Feb. 1, for payload integration to the Falcon 9 rocket supporting this mission. Prior to transport, PACE was …
NASA, SpaceX, and PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission managers met today, Thursday, Feb. 1, to conduct a Flight Readiness Review at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the review, teams provided an update on the mission status and certified the readiness to initiate final launch preparation activities. Once launched, PACE will …
NASA's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft is now safely encapsulated in SpaceX's Falcon 9 payload fairings. The fairing halves protect the spacecraft from aerodynamic pressure and heating during the ascent phase of launch. Approximately three minutes after liftoff, the halves are jettisoned and return to Earth. Upcoming milestones for PACE include payload integration …
Fred Huemmrich is a member of NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) science and applications team and a research professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. What is your favorite atmosphere, land, or ocean related book or movie? "Dune." To be specific, I really liked the appendix of Dune which has the story …
NASA and SpaceX technicians connected NASA's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft to the payload adapter on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now that PACE is securely attached to the payload adapter, teams will encapsulate the spacecraft inside the protective payload fairings …
Jeroen Rietjens is an instrument scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) and worked on the SPEXone polarimeter. PACE's SPEXone instrument is a multi-angle polarimeter. It measures the intensity, degree and angle of linear polarization of sunlight reflected back from Earth's atmosphere, land surface, and ocean. What is your favorite atmosphere or ocean …
Natasha Sadoff is the deputy coordinator for the applications program and PACE. What is your favorite ocean or atmosphere related book or movie? Probably "The Little Mermaid." It's a whole other world with the wildlife (and mermaids) in their own kingdom, so it just makes the ocean very magical. What is your background? I'm a …
