NASA will host a prelaunch news conference today, Feb. 5, at 9 a.m. EST, to discuss the agency’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. This follows the NASA and SpaceX launch readiness review Sunday, Feb. 4, resulting in a “go” for launch.
Participants for the briefing include:
- Jim Free, NASA associate administrator
- Karen St. Germain, director, NASA’s Earth Science Division
- Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program
- Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX
- Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force
Live coverage of the news conference will air on NASA+ and NASA TV.
PACE is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 1:33 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 6, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
To learn more about the PACE mission, visit:
https://pace.oceansciences.org/mission.htm
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