2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Collaborations and Partnerships FAA Liaison Efforts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 International Activities & Collaboration .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Media, Education & Outreach NSERC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 ISRSE..........................103 CeNAT Workshops.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Newsletter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Recognition & Awards.. . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Looking Ahead to FY10 and Beyond. ....................109 Appendices In Memoriam.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Airborne Program History. ........117 Five-Year Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ASP Bibliography Project. . . . . . . . . . 123 Acronyms & Abbreviations . . . . . . . . 125 vi
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NASA’s Airborne Science Program had another busy year in FY09. The program flew missions and instrument tests on five core aircraft, eight catalog aircraft, and two new technology unmanned aircraft systems. The program completed a total of seventy flight requests for almost 1900 flight hours. More than a dozen different customer communities were served in all six focus areas of NASA Earth Science and related aerospace fields. In 2009 we focused significant effort on the Cryosphere and completing IPY related missions. Greenland and Iceland ice monitoring missions were successful far-field missions for the G-III carrying the L-band UAVSAR and a new Ka-band SAR. The Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment (CASIE) mission proved our new SIERRA UAS, flying out of Svalbard, Norway. Operation Ice Bridge saw the P-3 in Greenland in the Spring while the DC-8 was outfitted for a major Fall mission over Antarctica, flying from Punta Arenas, Chile. The G-III with UAVSAR completed its first fully operational year with over 500 hours, including flights in Alaska. In addition to launching the mid-size SIERRA UAS, our Global Hawk UAS was readied for its first science mission – GloPac – to take place in early 2010. Other missions, Pre-GRIP and GRIP, are in the pipeline for Global Hawk as well. The DC-8 was the laboratory home during summer 2009 for the inaugural session of the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), headed by the National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NRERC). With this success, we are planning another program for 2010. Programmatically, the Airborne Science Program was impacted significantly in 2009 by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which has provided funds for needed upgrades and new capabilities. These efforts will provide payload portability and similar capability for near-real time data downlink on all platforms. Many of the outcomes from this program are expected during 2010. Finally, the Airborne Science Program is looking forward to continued Operation Ice Bridge efforts, to participating in Earth Venture-1 missions, and to supporting upcoming satellite missions, including Decadal Survey missions. 1
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COLLABORATIONS and PARTNERSHIPS
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Media, Education and Outreach NSERC
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Recognition and Awards Spring 2009
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APPENDIX A In Memoriam Frank Caldei
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APPENDIX B Airborne Program History
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