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Pegasus XL | 8 x CYGNSS

8 x CYGNSS

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Launch Details

Date: 15 Dec 2016, 01:37 pm UTC

Rocket: Pegasus XL (Pegasus)

Provider: Orbital ATK

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Cape Canaveral, Air launch to orbit

Mission Description

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.