Successful satellite launch will let NASA measure polar heat loss

25 May 2024, 16:15 by Simon Druker · UPI

May 25 (UPI) -- NASA on Saturday successfully launched a satellite it hopes will be able to measure how much heat is lost to space from the Arctic and Antarctica.

The small cube satellite, or CubeSat, lifted off at 3:41 a.m. in New Zealand aboard an Electron rocket manufactured by Rocket Lab.