India, Feb. 8 -- Thursday, NASA launched a satellite to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate.
Known as PACE, or the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem, the satellite was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
It successfully entered the orbit at 1:33 a.m. ET, NASA said. It confirmed signal acquisition from the satellite about five minutes after launch, and the spacecraft is performing as expected.
The launch was originally scheduled to take place Tuesday morning, but had to be postponed twice due to unfavorable weather conditions.
"PACE will help us learn, like never before, how particles in our atmosphere and our ...