2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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Figure 25<br />
NOVICE instrument payload.<br />
(UAVs), such as the <strong>NASA</strong> Global Hawk. A<br />
few additional, mature instruments were also<br />
flown to capture some of the same chemical<br />
species for intercomparison measurements.<br />
With the emphasis of the mission being<br />
on functional and performance testing,<br />
NOVICE allowed the investigators to focus<br />
on the engineering and intercomparison<br />
components rather than achieving highquality<br />
scientific data and results. This helped<br />
these teams elucidate anomalous instrument<br />
behaviors, such as offsets, drifts, vibrations,<br />
and transient phenomena that cannot always<br />
be duplicated in the labs.<br />
type of innovative test program provides a<br />
link between the technology development<br />
programs and the actual flight experiments<br />
normally performed by <strong>NASA</strong>. It enables<br />
the science instruments to undergo the flight<br />
testing required to give these instruments the<br />
requisite reliability and accuracy needed for<br />
future <strong>NASA</strong> Earth <strong>Science</strong> process studies.<br />
NOVICE may, in fact, be the prototype for<br />
future similar flight opportunites. Dr. Jim<br />
Podolske of <strong>NASA</strong> Ames was the Project<br />
Scientist, and the overall mission was<br />
managed by ESPO.<br />
URL: http://www.espo.nasa.gov/novice<br />
Three sorties with a total of 11.3 hours were<br />
flown during the NOVICE experiment. This<br />
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