NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne,
Calif., to provide launch services for the agency’s PACE mission.
PACE stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem.
The PACE mission represents the
nation’s next great investment in understanding and protecting our
home planet. The mission will provide global ocean color, cloud, and
aerosol data that will provide unprecedented insights into
oceanographic and atmospheric responses to Earth’s changing
climate. PACE will help scientists investigate the diversity of
organisms fueling marine food webs and the U.S. economy, and deliver
advanced data products to reduce uncertainties in global climate
models and improve our interdisciplinary understanding of the Earth
system.
The total cost for NASA to launch PACE
is approximately $80.4 million, which includes the launch service and
other mission related costs. The PACE mission currently is targeted
to launch in December 2022 on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The PACE mission is managed at NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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