NASA’s Exciting Briefing on Revolutionary Climate Mission: Exploring Ocean Life and Air

Roxana Bardan

Jan 11, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA is gearing up for an exciting new mission and you’re invited to be part of it! Join us for a media teleconference on Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 12 p.m. EST to learn all about the upcoming PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission.

Once in orbit above Earth, the PACE satellite will provide invaluable insights into microscopic life in water and microscopic particles in the air. This mission aims to further our understanding of how our oceans and atmosphere interact in a changing climate.

The audio-only teleconference will be livestreamed on the agency’s website, so you won’t want to miss it!

NASA participants will include:

• NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy
• Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters
• Jeremy Werdell, PACE project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
• Mark Voyton, PACE project manager, NASA Goddard
• Noosha Haghani, PACE deputy mission systems engineer, NASA Goddard
• Otto Hasekamp, atmospheric scientist, SRON/Netherlands Institute for Space Research
• Erin Urquhart Jephson, PACE applications lead, NASA Goddard

Are you a member of the media and want to be a part of this exciting event? Don’t forget to RSVP by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17 to Jacob Richmond at jacob.a.richmond@nasa.gov or 301-286-6255.

The PACE mission is set to launch no earlier than 1:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 6, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

For more information about the PACE mission, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/pace

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Karen Fox / Katherine Rohloff
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
karen.c.fox@nasa.gov / katherine.a.rohloff@nasa.gov

Jacob Richmond
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-6255
jacob.a.richmond@nasa.gov

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