Improving Hurricane Forecasts Using Nanosatellites

Forecasting of hurricane track and intensity is extremely difficult due to the dynamic nature of the inner storm processes. NASA has developed a new mission to improve our ability to observe hurricanes from space and better capture the storms as they form and evolve. This new mission is called TROPICS: Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. Join Dr. Bill Blackwell, an Associate Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Principal Investigator of the TROPICS mission, to learn how this mission will fly very small “nanosatellites” to make remote measurements of temperature, moisture, and precipitation around hurricanes. This was recorded on September 14, 2022.

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