Potential Contributions of the Dynamical Microwave Radiometer on the INCUS Mission Based on the Scientific Achievements of the TEMPEST-D and TEMPEST-H8 Missions

The INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) is a NASA Earth Venture mission (EVM-3) led by PI Susan van den Heever of Colorado State University (CSU), in collaboration with NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Blue Canyon Technologies, and Tendeg Systems. The successful EVM-3 proposal to NASA's Earth Science Division relied on the prior success of two pathfinder CubeSat missions: RainCube, the first weather radar on a CubeSat, led by NASA/JPL, and the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems - Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) mission, led by CSU, producing the first global (up to 58 degrees latitude) observations from a multi-frequency microwave radiometer on a CubeSat, operating for nearly three years in LEO.