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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ground control station, and is responsible for<br />
ensuring airworthiness of the vehicles, quality<br />
assurance, configuration management, and<br />
system safety. <strong>NASA</strong> and NGC are each<br />
providing approximately half of the project<br />
staffing and will share equal access to the<br />
<strong>NASA</strong> Global Hawk system. During the<br />
standup of the program, the aircraft are being<br />
modified with a new independent airborne<br />
and ground integrated system for command,<br />
control, and communications (C3) with<br />
payloads.<br />
A fixed <strong>NASA</strong> Global Hawk Operations<br />
Center (GHOC) is being developed at<br />
Dryden, which is configured to independently<br />
support air vehicle and payload operations.<br />
The Flight Operations Room (FOR) of the<br />
GHOC will consist of workstations occupied<br />
by the personnel responsible for the flight<br />
control and management of the air vehicle<br />
operations. An adjacent Payload Operations<br />
Room (POR) will consist of workstations<br />
occupied by the personnel responsible for<br />
the various air vehicle payloads. The POR<br />
personnel can monitor payload status, receive<br />
payload data, and control their individual<br />
payloads.<br />
Flight operations of the Global Hawk are<br />
scheduled to begin during the second<br />
quarter of FY09 and research flights are<br />
scheduled to begin during the third quarter.<br />
The first Global Hawk science campaign<br />
will be 2009 Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac)<br />
mission<br />
Figure 33<br />
<strong>NASA</strong> Global Hawk #872 in front of Hangar 4801 at the<br />
Dryden Flight Research Center.<br />
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