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08/25/2026

Hurricane Harvey hit Texas nine years ago today causing widespread, catastrophic flooding. The linked article presents details of 3D views of Harvey acquired from the ISS on August 25, 2017 just 5½ hours before it made landfall. These views of Hurricane Harvey were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 52 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

Hurricane Harvey was located in the Gulf of Mexico and was rated as a strong Category 3 storm with sustained winds of about 201 kph (125 mph)

08/21/2026

The linked article presents details of 3D views of the Category 4 Super Typhoon Atsani in the western Pacific Ocean on August 19, 2015. These views were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 44 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

Atsani was located in the western part of the North Pacific and had just been upgraded a Category 4 “Super Typhoon”

08/21/2026

Typhoon Soulik (the sixth typhoon of the 2018 season) was an unusually large storm and the most powerful to hit the Korean Peninsula in six years. The linked article presents details of 3D views of Typhoon Soulik from the ISS on August 21, 2018 shortly after the storm had reached peak intensity in the East China Sea. These views of Soulik were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 56 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

Typhoon Soulik was near its peak intensity and was rated as a strong Category 2 storm, on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with sustained winds of about 177 kph (110 mph)

08/13/2026

Wildfires are among the more common form of natural disaster which are only becoming more common, widespread, and destructive as a result of climate change. Orbital 3D imaging can be used as a new tool to detect and monitor wildfires, especially in remote regions, as well as the effects they can have on local and regional weather. The linked article presents details of an experiment to obtain 3D views of California from August 13, 2018 when several wildfires were burning including the Carr Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. They were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 56 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite (HHSat) project currently under development for launch in 2028. These stereo observations from the ISS demonstrates that HHSat will provide vital data to monitor wildfires and their smoke plumes.

08/08/2026

The linked article presents details of 3D views of the Cat 3 Hurricane Hector in the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii on August 8, 2018. They were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 56 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

The weakening hurricane was rated as a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of about 185 kph (115 mph)

08/04/2026

The linked article presents details of 3D views of the Cat 4 Super Typhoon Soudelor in the Pacific Ocean on August 4, 2015. It was created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 44 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

By the time the crew of the ISS photographed Soudelor in support of our project, it had been downgraded to a Category 4 storm

08/03/2026

On Tuesday, August 4 at 12:30 EDT, TWA Chief Scientist Drew LePage will be interviewed live on the "Tech & Space Leaders Show". Click the link below to watch!

08/01/2026

This linked article presents details of 3D views of the Cat 3 Typhoon Noru in the western Pacific Ocean eight years ago today on August 1, 2017. These 3D views were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 52 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

At the time of the CyMISS photography session, Typhoon Noru had weakened to a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of about 185 kph (115 mph)

07/31/2026

Tropical weather systems are among the most powerful and destructive forces known on our planet. And while intense hurricanes and typhoons are the most potent expressions of tropical weather, weaker systems are still capable of creating spectacular outbursts. This article on Drew Ex Machina presents nighttime images of the weakening Post-Tropical Cyclone Gilma over the central Pacific taken by the crew of the ISS during the early morning hours of July 31, 2018 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028. With only moonlight providing the illumination for these nighttime observations, the intense lightning strike recorded here produced a cloud top aureole over 30 km across illustrating the power of even this supposedly weak class of tropical weather.

The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the de…

07/10/2026

This linked article presents details of a 3D view of Hurricane Eugene in the eastern Pacific Ocean on July 10, 2017 after it had weakened to a Cat 1 storm. These views of Eugene were created using images acquired by the crew of ISS Expedition 52 in support of the CASIS-sponsored CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) program which ran from 2014 to 2019 as part of NASA’s CEO (Crew Earth Observations) activities. CyMISS was a vital precursor for TWA’s Hurricane Hunter Satellite project currently under development for launch in 2028.

The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes and typhoons, to s…