Air NZ is helping NASA with climate change with its daily operations with a ground-breaking approach to collecting data for the global scientific community.
In a world-first, Air New Zealand flight NZ8844 took off Tuesday, September 13, from Christchurch to Nelson carrying a NASA next-generation satellite receiver.
Using direct and reflected GPS and Galileo signals, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver will collect unique environmental data to better predict storms and enable new climate change research.
Air NZ is the first passenger airline in the world to join a NASA earth mission, working together since 2020 on the design, installation and certification read more ⇒
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