Radiation Budget Instrument

The Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) is a scanning radiometer capable of measuring Earth's reflected sunlight and emitted thermal radiation.^[1][2] The project was cancelled on January 26, 2018; NASA cited technical, cost, and schedule issues and the impact of anticipated RBI cost growth on other programs.^[3]

RBI was scheduled to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System 2 (JPSS-2) mission planned for launch in November 2021; the JPSS-3 mission planned for launch in 2026; and the JPSS-4 mission planned for launch in 2031. The one on JPSS-2 would have been the 14th in the series that started with the Earth radiation budget instruments launched in 1985, and would have extended the unique global climate measurements of the Earth's radiation budget provided by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments since 1998.

References

1. NASA.gov
2. NASA.gov
3. "NASA Cancels Earth Science Sensor Set for 2021 Launch". NASA.gov. Retrieved 28 January 2018.

External links

•  This article incorporates public domain material from RBI. NASA. Archived from the original on 2017-05-14.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from RBI - Radiation Budget Instrument. NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-12-02.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from NASA Awards Radiation Budget Instrument Contract. NASA.