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Air New Zealand collects climate data for NASA project

The airline is claiming a world-first for passenger aircraft.

How Q300 aircraft collects data to better predict severe storms. Source: University of Auckland

Nevil Gibson Wed, 14 Sep 2022

Air New Zealand revealed one of its regional turbo-prop aircraft has begun a scientific research project called Rongowai with America’s space agency, NASA, to collect climate data that may better predict storms.

Flight NZ8844 from Christchurch to Nelson on Tuesday carried a NASA Global Navigation

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Nevil Gibson Wed, 14 Sep 2022
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