2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Non-Deployment Teams Field Deployment Team On-board Displays 94 Aircraft Science Data & Comm Systems INMARSAT INMARSAT NASDAT - Iridium - Iridium QuickTime and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. NASDAT QuickTime and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Satellites Airborne Telepresence Lab, DFRC Aircraft Ground Station MSFC RTMM server Field-Deployable System Multiple Web sources Figure 41 Notional Airborne Science Real-time Data and Communications Architecture
network linking the payload instruments to a common server, and a user-transparent satellite communications system that extends the network to a ground operations center. It will also utilize standard communications protocols and data formats, including the IWG-1 format developed by the IWGADTS. Data visualization tools, customized to the individual instrument types, are also essential to present the information to the science teams in a useable form for decision-making. NSERC and the Real Time Mission Monitor team at Marshall Space Flight Center are jointly developing the software to achieve this. Elements of the NASA Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE) will also be incorporated to foster communication and data sharing with extended science teams across the Internet. Derived from software used at NASA Ames to manage the Mars planetary rovers, and adapted to airborne platforms for the Western States Fire Missions, the CDE promises to greatly expand data accessibility, enabling investigators around the world to actively participate in airborne science missions. Along with the complex software required to support the real-time data environment, specialized flight hardware is also required. One essential element is an enhanced version of the navigation data recorders currently in use on the ER-2 and WB-57 aircraft. These units capture platform and other state data from the aircraft avionics systems and re-broadcast them to the payload instruments. Incorporating the Ethernet network functionality developed at NASA Dryden on the REVEAL project, the nextgeneration of these systems will be called the NASDAT (NASA Airborne Science Data and Telemetry) system and is scheduled to deploy in late 2009. Accompanying this will be a new standard Experimenter Interface Panel (EIP), which will provide electrical power, network communications, and the state data feeds to the various aircraft payload areas. The new EIPs will be first installed on the Global Hawk, initially hosted by a modified REVEAL box, pending the availability of the new NASDAT units. The EIP/NASDAT combination will eventually be installed on all the core NASA science platforms. In addition, the Global Hawk UAS has unique hardware requirements to transform it into a science platform. A Master Payload Control System/Power Distribution Unit (MPCS/ PDU) system will allow the mission pilot to monitor and control the power and basic functionality of each instrument individually. A separate telemetry link module is also being developed to interface with the high-speed Ku-band sat-com system slated for the Global Hawk. The link module will also include mass storage for buffering science data, and a dedicated payload computer for onboard processing with mission-specific software. This flight hardware is being developed at the Airborne Science and Technology Lab (ASTL) at NASA Ames. This overall communications and datasharing concept will be initially demonstrated on the Global Hawk UAS during its first science missions in 2009, with the associated visualization and web-based tools being hosted in the Global Hawk Operations Center at NASA Dryden. It will then be gradually implemented across the NASA airborne science fleet as platforms are upgraded and satellite communications systems become more widely available. 95
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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LIST OF FIGURES Fig. # Caption Page
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CONTRIBUTORS The contribution of th
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SCIENCE MISSIONS &
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ARCTAS Science Focus: Atmospheric C
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sample downwind evolution of Canadi
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Figure 7 ACCLAIM instrument on the
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configurations and interfaces. SIMP
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Figure 8 2008 UAS proposed operatio
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Figure 10 The Oden Research Vessel
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California Fire Emergency Response
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Figure 13 AMS-Wildfire sensor data,
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Southern California Post Fire Evalu
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CALIPSO: Caribbean Validation Missi
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Cold Land Processes Science Focus:
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Science Focus: Astromaterials Spons
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ESA ATV Reentry Science Focus: Atmo
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SOGASEX Science Focus: Carbon Cycle
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presented unique challenges to a U.
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Figure 25 NOVICE instrument payload
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