2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 From the Director.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Program Elements & Execution .. . . . 5 Science Missions & Accomplishments AVIRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CALIPSO - Cal/Val. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 CASIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Decadal Survey Support Missions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 DESDYNI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ASCENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 SWOT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 EPA Joint Sensors Mission.. . . . . . 20 High Winds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Interferometric SAR Ice Mapping in Greenland.. . . . . . . . 25 Operation ICE Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . 28. Western States Fire. ............ 31 AAFEx.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 RACORO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 TM Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Instrument Test Flights SIMPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 TWiLiTE .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 CO 2 Laser Sounder.. . . . . . . . . . . . 41 AESMIR...................... 43 Airborne Science Program Elements: Science Requirements & Management Science & Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Flight Requests.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Joint Airborne Science Sensor Integration Working Group .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Aircraft Platforms Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 DC-8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 ER-2 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 WB-57...........................61 P-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 G-III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Catalog Aircraft NASA LaRC Aircraft...............64 NASA GRC Aircraft .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Ikhana.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 New Technology & Platform Development Global Hawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 SIERRA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Common Data & Communications Systems. .........77 Science Instrumentation, Facilities, & Support Systems Airborne Sensor Facility. . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 v
Page 3: NASA Science Mission Directorate Ea
Page 7: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NASA’s Airborne
Page 10 and 11: In keeping with those thoughts, I w
Page 12 and 13: Acting Airborne Science Program Dir
Page 15: SCIENCE MISSIONS and ACCOMPLISHMENT
Page 18 and 19: CALIPSO Cal/Val Science Focus: HQ S
Page 20 and 21: Figure 6: This map shows the nearly
Page 22 and 23: DESDYNI Science Focus: HQ Sponsors:
Page 24 and 25: ASCENDS Science Focus: HQ Sponsor:
Page 26 and 27: EPA Joint Sensors Mission HQ Sponso
Page 28 and 29: High Winds Science Focus: HQ Sponso
Page 30 and 31: Figure 18: En route from Goose Bay
Page 32 and 33: Figure 20: Flight route of G-III fr
Page 34 and 35: Operation ICE Bridge Science Focus:
Page 36 and 37: Atmospheric Chemistry instruments w
Page 38 and 39: 32 Figure 29: Image of Station Fire
Page 40 and 41: mass; black carbon morphology, comp
Page 42 and 43: TM Relay HQ sponsor: NASA Launch Se
Page 44 and 45: Figure 34: SIMPL’s shared optical
Page 46 and 47: data were obtained and, with suppor
Page 48 and 49: measurements. The flight patterns w
Page 51: AIRBORNE SCIENCE PROGRAM ELEMENTS S
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Flight Request System The year 2009
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JASSIWG Joint Airborne Science Sens
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AIRCRAFT PLATFORMS Core Fleet and C
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NASA’s DC-8 The NASA DC-8 complet
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Figure 45: Students return from ano
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functional traits: cell structure,
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NASA’s P-3 The P-3 is based at Go
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Catalog Aircraft The Airborne Scien
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aircraft flew coordinated patterns
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Ikhana NASA Dryden Flight Research
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NEW TECHNOLOGY and PLATFORM DEVELOP
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flight control and management of th
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Figure 55: Preparation and precheck
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Figure 58: The Experimenter Interfa
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SCIENCE INSTRUMENTATION, FACILITIES
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MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator) Afte
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Other Program Support Activities Th
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Figure 64: The DAOF hangar allows c
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Collaborations and Partnerships FAA
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International Activities and Collab
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MEDIA, EDUCATION and OUTREACH
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gas samples in a chemistry lab and
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imagery, integrated with maps, aeri
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Newsletter The Airborne Science Pro
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Looking Ahead to FY10 and Beyond Th
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APPENDICES
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Bob Danielson Figure 71: Bob Daniel
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spoke to the origins of the U-2 pro
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NASA’s Ames Research Center at Mo
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APPENDIX D ASP Bibliography Project
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APPENDIX E Acronyms & Abbreviations
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DCS DESDynI DFRC DHS DLH DMS DOD DO
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JP-8 JPL JSC Jet fuel Jet Propulsio
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R RACORO ReSePP ROTC RSD RSP RTMM R
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