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Weather microsatellite swarm

Recorded year2023

NASA's TROPICS puts shoebox-sized microwave satellites in orbit that rescan hurricanes about every hour instead of a few times a day.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.