NASA, of course. The space agency successfully launched a new mission today called PACE — short for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite — that will study its namesake.

“It’s groundbreaking,” said Jeremy Werdell, project scientist for the PACE satellite mission. “In 25 years at NASA, it’s the first mission I feel I can grow into instead of knowing ...

A revolutionary new satellite that will provide an unprecedented ... Although designed as a three-year mission, PACE has enough fuel to continue orbiting and studying Earth for up to 10 years.

The PACE satellite, its Falcon 9 rocket and mission operations are costing NASA $948 million. After extensive tests and instrument calibration, science observations are expected to begin in about ...

The mission's acronym, PACE, stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem. Nestled in the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket, the PACE satellite took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

The first-stage booster for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on NASA's PACE satellite mission lights up the sky upon its return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday ...

Related: SpaceX to launch NASA's PACE ocean-monitoring satellite this week PACE's mission can be divided into two overarching categories; the first has to do with Earth's massive, cavernous oceans.

CHICAGO -- NASA is preparing to launch its next major Earth and climate satellite. The Plankton Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem mission or PACE is set for liftoff Tuesday morning from Kennedy Space ...

as part of a new project to ensure the data quality for NASA's newly launched PACE (Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, Ocean Ecosystems) satellite mission. Professor David Antoine, head of Curtin's ...