{"id":182256,"date":"2024-02-08T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/spacex-launches-billion-dollar-environmental-research-satellite-for-nasa"},"modified":"2024-02-08T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:22:26","slug":"spacex-launches-billion-dollar-environmental-research-satellite-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/spacex-launches-billion-dollar-environmental-research-satellite-for-nasa","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches billion-dollar environmental research satellite for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEgQlSOD0oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched an environmental research satellite for NASA early Thursday, a nearly $1 billion spacecraft that survived multiple cancellation threats and is now poised to shed new light on climate change and the complex interplay of heat-trapping carbon, aerosols and sea life on global scales.<\/p>\n<p>The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission \u2014 PACE \u2014 \u201cwill dramatically advance our understanding of the relationship between aerosols and clouds, and the global energy balance,\u201d said Karen St. Germain, director of NASA\u2019s Earth sciences division. \u201cThis is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in our ability to model the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said PACE is \u201cgoing to teach us about the oceans in the same way that Webb (the James Webb Space Telescope) is teaching us about the cosmos.\u201d And that includes \u201ca tremendous amount about ocean biology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched an environmental research satellite for NASA early Thursday, a nearly $1 billion spacecraft that survived multiple cancellation threats and is now poised to shed new light on climate change and the complex interplay of heat-trapping carbon, aerosols and sea life on global scales. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission \u2014 PACE \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493,32,2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology","category-education","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}