The COWVR Mission: Demonstrating Small Satellite Capability to Fill the Looming Gap in Microwave Radiometer Coverage

Shannon Thomas Brown1, Paolo Focardi2, Amarit Kitiyakara3, Frank Maiwald4, Lance Milligan5, Oliver Montes6, Sharmila Padmanabhan7, Richard Redick4 and Damon Russell8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States