TROPICS will help to do just that, and we look forward to next year’s launch of the TROPICS satellite constellation." "NASA’s innovation is strengthening data models that help scientists improve storm forecasting and understand the factors that feed these monster storms. And as climate change is making hurricanes even stronger, it's more important than ever that NASA and our partners invest in missions like TROPICS to better track and understand extreme weather," says NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "As a lifelong Floridian, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating impact that hurricanes can have on our communities. Since tropical cyclones and hurricanes can change rapidly as they travel across the ocean, the increased observations from the TROPICS satellites will not only advance the science of understanding storm intensity, they also may improve intensity forecasts. The TROPICS mission will be among the first to use a constellation of small satellites for global, rapid-revisit views of tropical storms. The program calls for innovative, science-driven, cost-effective missions to solve pressing issues related to Earth science. Six years ago, Blackwell submitted TROPICS as a proposal to NASA's Earth Venture Instrument program and was awarded funding.
"These storms affect a lot of people, and we expect that with the increased observations over a single storm from TROPICS, we will be able to improve forecasts, which translates to helping people get to safety sooner, protecting property, and overall enhancing the national economy," says William Blackwell, principal investigator of the TROPICS program and an associate leader of the Applied Space Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Planned for launch in 2022, the TROPICS satellites will work together to provide near-hourly microwave observations of a storm's precipitation, temperature, and humidity - a revisit time for these measurements not currently possible with other satellites. To provide a more consistent watch over Earth's tropical belt where these storms form, NASA has launched a test satellite, or pathfinder, ahead of a constellation of six weather satellites called TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats). What’s more, a record-tying 10 of those storms were characterized as rapidly intensifying - some throttling up by 100 miles per hour in under two days. In the rush to get the Pathfinder class prototype commissioned, the components to make the secondary and tertiary hulls completely self-sufficient were not yet installed.Īfter a major refitting in early 2378, the MVAM features of the USS Miranda-B were fully enabled, at approximately the same time as the Miranda's sister ships, Pathfinder and Stargazer, were completed.The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most brutal on record, producing an unprecedented 30 named storms. Launched in 2377, the USS Miranda-B was assigned to units on the outer Federation territories to perform patrol and presence missions, as well as the routine mapping and exploration duties that any Starfleet vessel is expected to carry out. This vessel was initially named USS Pathfinder, but recommissioned USS Miranda-B at the request of Fleet Admiral Victor Murdock and in honor of the previous vessel to bear the name, the Jupiter-class USS Miranda (NCC-77000-A). In 2377 the Pathfinder class was launched and designated as the ultimate in front-line explorers.
By 2376 the prototype was completed and began her shakedown cruise shortly thereafter. The Pathfinder Class Development Project began the year following confirmed approvals from Starfleet Command and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. " Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas Construction
The last three vessels to bear the name have borne the following quote: This quote adorned the commissioning plaque of the first two starships to bear the name Miranda. "O, wonder!" How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" One might recognize this quote from Miranda in Act V:
Some travelers from their country land on the island and Miranda falls in love with the young prince, who ends up rescuing them and bringing them back to civilization. The pair were abandoned on an island by some enemies of Prospero. Miranda is also the only daughter of Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The moon was the first location that dilithium was discovered naturally, and enabled warp speed to become an operative mode of travel rather quickly. Miranda, in astronomy, one of the moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus.
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