INCUS
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Overview
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]
Instruments
It will have Ka rain radars and a MW radiometer.[9]