{"id":1004,"date":"2026-02-08T01:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:53:29","slug":"strive-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/strive-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"STRIVE is Selected!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big news! STRIVE has been selected for continued development by NASA as part of the Earth System Explorers Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The entire STRIVE team is absolutely thrilled by this decision announced by NASA on Thursday February 5, 2026. Years of collaboration, creativity, and hard work have led to this moment, and we are excited to move into the next phase of mission development.<\/p>\n<p>STRIVE will deliver an unprecedented view of the upper atmosphere, helping improve predictions of extreme weather, air quality, and the future of the ozone layer. We\u2019re incredibly grateful for NASA\u2019s support and for our outstanding community of partners\u2014and we\u2019re energized to turn this vision into reality.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nasa_meatball_large.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>NASA Press Release, Feb 5 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-selects-two-earth-system-explorers-missions\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-selects-two-earth-system-explorers-missions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! STRIVE has been selected for continued development by NASA as part of the Earth System Explorers Program. The entire STRIVE team is absolutely thrilled by this decision announced by NASA on Thursday February 5, 2026. Years of collaboration, creativity, and hard work have led to this moment, and we are excited to move into the next phase of mission development. STRIVE will deliver an unprecedented view of the upper atmosphere, helping improve predictions of extreme weather, air quality,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.uw.edu\/strive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}