BAE Systems developed Mistic Winds with a grant from NASA’s Instrument Incubator Program and the company’s internal research and development funding.
This flight was the longest drone flight made in Korea despite inclement weather with strong winds.
Crew-1’s Crew Dragon features an improved backshell that increases wind limits for reentry and raises the probability of acceptable winds from one in seven on Demo-2 to one in four for Crew-1.
Under a 2019 Air Force phase two SBIR contract worth nearly $750,000, Brandywine Photonics is developing the Compact Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Instrument to measure atmospheric temperature and moisture and to monitor winds in three dimensions.
Arianespace and Avio were ready to launch Vega in June 2020 but upper-level winds delayed the mission into August 2020.
Arianespace planned a Vega mission for 2020-09-01 carrying 53 smallsats after that mission experienced delays from upper-level winds earlier in the year.
The 2020-08-15 Ariane 5 launch was delayed two weeks to replace a problematic sensor on the rocket's first stage and was delayed again by a day because of upper-level winds.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast six to 10 hurricanes with winds of at least 119 km per hour for the 2020 season, which runs from 2020-06-01 through 2020-11-30.
Arianespace postponed a Vega launch carrying 53 smallsats until at least 2020-08-17 due to exceptionally unfavorable upper-level winds that scrubbed previous launch attempts in June.
Space Perspective selected Florida because shifting stratospheric winds make a peninsula launch site that allows for splashdowns optimal, and the company identified Kennedy Space Center as an obvious primary launch location within the continental United States.
With a second pair of GNSS Reflectometry cubesats, Spire plans to provide sustained monitoring of soil moisture and ocean winds.
The 2019-12-05 Falcon 9 launch was delayed one day due to high upper-level winds.
A Dragon cargo mission to the ISS is scheduled to launch 2019-12-05 after winds scrubbed a 2019-12-04 launch attempt.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is building the Weather System Follow-on Microwave operational satellite equipped with passive microwave imaging radiometers to monitor ocean winds and cyclone intensity and an energetic charged particle sensor.
The hopper’s originally planned large nose cone was toppled and significantly damaged by high winds at the South Texas site in January 2019.
Virgin Galactic postponed a scheduled 2019-02-20 test of SpaceShipTwo from Mojave Air and Space Port because of winds and planned to attempt the test again on 2019-02-22.
Blue Origin postponed the NS-10 flight on 2019-01-20 for at least one day due to high winds in the forecast and one vehicle open issue.
The 2018-12-19 CSO-1 launch was delayed by one day due to high-altitude winds above the Guiana Space Center.
Vega launched at 5:21 p.m. Eastern following a one-day delay caused by high-altitude winds.