Published on 16 Jun 2020 |
Welcome to the PREFIRE Website, hosted at the Space Science and Engineering Center.
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) was selected during the fourth Earth Venture Instrument (EVI-4) opportunity. Please see the announcements at NASA and UW-Madison for more information. The team is currently working toward a launch no earlier than 2022. Check back for future updates!
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Heading into space in late spring 2024 from a seaside launchpad in New Zealand, the dual PREFIRE CubeSats will soon begin their work! Although small in size, they will provide important measurements about how well the Earth's polar regions are able to cool off.
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NASA has selected the launch provider for the PREFIRE mission. Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California will launch both PREFIRE CubeSats during the spring of 2024. The first PREFIRE CubeSat launch is nominally scheduled for May 1, 2024, and the launch of the other PREFIRE CubeSat is scheduled for May 15, 2024.
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Across Greenland, a 3,000-meter (9,800-foot) thick ice sheet blankets the large island holding enough water to raise sea levels by 7 m (23 ft). For millennia, the cycle of melting and freezing has played a major role in...
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Using miniaturized satellites called CubeSatsm, a new NASA mission is poised to gather missing data in the far infrared to better understand how the polar regions regulate Earth’s temperature.
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