{"id":463409,"date":"2026-06-06T03:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:29:15","slug":"nasas-incus-mission-on-road-to-launch-study-storms-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463409\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s INCUS Mission on Road to Launch, Study Storms From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"w2kke\">Teams working on NASA\u2019s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission, the first space-based survey of the dynamics of tropical convective storms, have completed assembly and tested two of the mission\u2019s small satellites, or SmallSats. Testing continues on the third SmallSat and is scheduled for completion no earlier than September in advance of a 2027 launch.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6tcvb\">Characterized by the sudden and intense lifting of large amounts of air and water, tropical convective storms provide more than half of the world\u2019s precipitation, a crucial source of life-supporting fresh water. But they also produce severe weather, which can increase risks to life and property. The INCUS mission will help improve understanding of where, when, and why convective storms form. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/smallsatellites\/2026\/06\/05\/nasas-incus-mission-on-road-to-launch-study-storms-from-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams working on NASA\u2019s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission, the first space-based survey of the dynamics of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-463409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}