Learn about the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System — NASA’s fleet of hurricane-tracking satellites — launching together on Dec. 12 from Cape Canaveral aboard a Pegasus rocket. The eight small satellites comprising the CYGNSS constellation will help improve hurricane intensity, track and storm surge forecasts.

This NASA news conference held Nov. 10 details the CYGNSS mission and its science objectives.

Our Pegasus archive.

from Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com/2016/11/10/video-previews-briefing-on-the-cygnss-mission-to-improve-hurricane-forecasting/