Episode 69: QuickSounder Environmental Satellite

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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SwRI is designing, building and operating the QuickSounder satellite, a collaborative mission between NASA and NOAA and the first in a new generation of low-Earth orbit environmental satellites. NOAA’s low-Earth orbit satellites collect weather data and provide information for the 3-to-7-day forecasts we use to plan our days and stay safe in severe weather. QuickSounder will also provide weather data, but what makes this prototype unique is the fast production timeline and the low construction cost. It is being developed in one-fifth of the time and at one-tenth of the cost of previous weather satellite technology. Listen now as QuickSounder Program Manager Keith Smith and Lead Systems Engineer Steve Thompson explain what the advanced production timeline means for weather forecasting and the challenges of designing and building the weather satellite in record time.

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0:00.0	The first in a new generation of low-Earth orbit environmental satellites will deliver data more quickly and fast-track weather satellite development.
0:10.0	SWRI is designing and building the cutting-edge quick-sounder satellite, how it will advance weather missions next on this episode of Technology Today.
0:20.0	We live with a new. weather missions next on this episode of Technology Today.
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0:53.5	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia.
0:57.0	SWRI is collaborating with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
1:03.0	or NOAA, to design, build, and operate quicksounder, the first in a new generation of low Earth orbit environmental satellites.
1:11.6	The cost-effective quicksounder will deliver temperature, moisture, and other weather data for NOAA's daily weather models, information we rely on to plan our day and to stay safe during severe weather.
1:24.6	SWRI engineer and QuickSounder program manager Keith Smith and lead systems engineer for
1:32.2	QuickSounder Steve Thompson.
1:34.0	Join us now to tell us about this extraordinary satellite.
1:38.0	Thank you for being here, Steve and Keith.
1:40.0	Thank you.
1:40.8	Yeah, thanks for having us.
1:42.0	All right.
1:42.5	So tell us about this satellite, this technology.
1:45.5	What is Quicksounder?
1:47.0	What will it do?
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