Rocket Lab to launch 2 missions for NASA hurricane-watching constellation

Rocket Lab is gearing up for two launches that will send four hurricane-watching satellites aloft for NASA's TROPICS constellation.

Rocket Lab is preparing to launch four tiny NASA hurricane-studying satellites across two missions next month from the company's Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) in New Zealand.

The two TROPICS ("Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Small Sats") missions were originally slated to fly a bit later from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.