NASA TROPICS Cubesat Mission

NASA and University of Wisconsin Madison collaborate on a Cubesat mission called TROPICS, the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats mission is a NASA constellation of six small satellites, 3U CubeSat, that will measure temperature and moisture profiles and precipitation in tropical systems with unprecedented temporal frequency. Scheduled for launch June 12 2022 Astra's 43-foot-tall (13 meters) Launch Vehicle 0010 (LV0010) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with NASA's TROPICS-1 mission and failed to deliver the cubesats due to the upper stage engine shutting down early.