•NASA holds a virtual media teleconference in advance of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosols, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than Feb. 6, 2024. Participants include: • Pam Melroy (NASA deputy administrator) • Karen St. Germain (NASA Earth Sciences Division director) • Jeremy Werdell (PACE project scientist) • Juli Lander (PACE deputy project manager) • Noosha Haghani (PACE deputy mission systems engineer) • Otto Hasekamp (SRON/SPEXOne atmospheric scientist) • Erin Urquhart Jephson (PACE applications lead)