INCUS

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Mission typeWeather
OperatorNASA
Websitehttps://incus.colostate.edu/
INCUS
Mission typeWeather
OperatorNASA
Websitehttps://incus.colostate.edu/

INCUS is a future mission by NASA to study why convective storms,[1][2][3] heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form.[2][4]

The spacecraft is 3 CubeSats funded and developed by NASA & JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) alongside Colorado State University and NOAA.[5] It is one of NASA's Earth Ventures Missions (EVM-3).[6] Its main goal is to enhance our understanding of why, when & where tropical convective storms form, to measure vertical air motion and why only a few storms produce extreme weather.[7] It will be launched by Firefly Aerospace.[8] It is a Class-D mission.[7]

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