After a little more than 7 years of development, our PREFIRE team successfully completed final mission readiness and operations readiness reviews and were declared ready to launch our two CubeSats that will systematically map far-infrared emission from the polar regions for the first time. Rocket Lab will launch each PREFIRE CubeSat on their Electron rocket platform. The first launch is scheduled for mid-May and the second early June. The team hopes to release some first looks at the PREFIRE data later this summer and hopes the far-infrared observations will stimulate many new investigations into the factors that influence polar and global climate.
Rocket Lab’s launch announcement
For more information about the mission, visit our PREFIRE website linked above or this recent NASA news story.