Mission coverage
Watch
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA Prefire Pre-Launch Press Conference
Published coverage links
Playing a video connects to YouTube. Coverage may be scheduled, live or recorded. If a player is unavailable, use “Open source”.
Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
NASA is hosting a media call to discuss the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to improve life on Earth by studying heat loss from Earth’s polar regions and provide information on our changing climate. Participants include: - Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington - Mary White, project manager, PREFIRE, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California - Tristan L’Ecuyer, principal investigator, PREFIRE, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Peter Beck, CEO and founder, Rocket Lab
Open the full mission →Published flight sequence
Know what comes next.
Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
A flight sequence has not been published for this mission.