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NASA emphasized its use of commercial technologies in both the launch of the satellites as well as their use of cubesat technologies. NASA selected PREFIRE in 2018 at part of its Earth Venture line of instruments and missions with a cost cap of nearly $33 million. “The PREFIRE cubesats may be small, but they’re going to close a big gap in our knowledge about Earth’s energy budget,” said Laurie Leshin, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the center managing the mission, in the NASA statement.