Proposed research budget cuts could ground Colorado State University-based NASA satellite mission

Name: Proposed research budget cuts could ground Colorado State University-based NASA satellite mission
Uploaded: 2025-08-22T16:55:00-0600
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: Based out of Colorado State University, the Investigation of Cloud Updrafts, or INCUS, is a mission meant to better understand and predict storms that lead to severe weather where people's lives are at risk and property could be destroyed. But President Trump's 2026 NASA budget request says that to achieve cost savings, the INCUS venture class mission won't continue and will close out next year.

Based out of Colorado State University, the Investigation of Cloud Updrafts, or INCUS, is a mission meant to better understand and predict storms that lead to severe weather where people's lives are at risk and property could be destroyed. But President Trump's 2026 NASA budget request says that to achieve cost savings, the INCUS venture class mission won't continue and will close out next year.