It is our absolute pleasure to invite Aerospace New Zealand Associates to join us at the Christchurch event for the NASA PREFIRE Launch.
Launching from New Zealand, NASA’s PREFIRE mission aims to measure Earth’s spectrally- resolved thermal emission, capturing Earth’s Planck function for the first time globally. PREFIRE uses a novel instrument that combines simple, miniaturized, passively cooled heat sensors with specially shaped optics and microelectronics to provide these measurements. Data from this mission aims to increase confidence in future projections of various climate change impacts, such as ongoing ice sheet melt, sea level rise, and changing cloud types. The CubeSats being launched for this mission represent the frontier of low-cost Earth observation for robust climate science. This seminar introduces the mission design and the scientific background along with a discussion about future-proofing Earth observation and the complexities of doing science with CubeSats.
Key speakers include:
Tristan L’Ecuyer is a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) and director of the
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison.Hamish Prince is a New Zealand-born atmospheric scientist who joined the PREFIRE team after
travelling to the USA on a NZ Fulbright Scholarship for his doctoral studies.
Doors open at 5pm. Seminar begins at 5:30pm.
Location: 231 High Street.
See you there!
Aerospace New Zealand