NASA’s PREFIRE Climate Change CubeSat Launched To Decode Earth’s Polar Mysteries

NASA’s PREFIRE mission, employing two CubeSats, aims to measure Earth’s heat emissions from the poles to improve climate predictions by analyzing Earth’s energy budget and its effect on ice, sea, and weather changes. The mission’s first CubeSat was launched from New Zealand using Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket. Credit: Rocket Lab’s PREFIRE mission uses CubeSats to track heat emissions from Earth’s poles, enhancing predictions for sea ice loss and climate change impacts.

This video gives an overview of the PREFIRE mission, which aims to improve global climate change predictions by expanding scientists’ understanding of heat radiated from Earth at the polar regions. Credit: NASA/Ground controllers successfully established communications with the CubeSat at 8:48 EDT. The second PREFIRE CubeSat will set off on its own Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in the coming days.

“The PREFIRE CubeSats may be small, but they’re going to close a big gap in our knowledge about Earth’s energy budget,” said Laurie Leshin, director, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Their observations will help us understand the fundamentals of Earth’s heat balance, allowing us to better predict how our ice, seas, and weather will change in the face of global warming.

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