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Program Airborne Missions NASA Headquarters NASA Centers NASA Ames Research Center NASA Armstrong (Dryden) Flight Research Center NASA Johnson Space Center NASA Langley Research Center NASA Wallops Flight Facility NASA Glenn Research Center Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC) Research Opportunities News NASA Earth Expeditions Blog Documents Related Links Videos Platforms All Platforms Aircraft Comparison Mission Map Asset Tracker Flight Request Aircraft Activities by Flight Request ASP Sensor Network Schedule Aircraft Current Status Aircraft Overview Schedule Aircraft Detailed Schedule 5 - Year Plan Instruments Instrument Database Facility Instruments Instrument TRL levels Engineering Support ASP Sensor Network Payload Information Form Instrument FAQs General Use Equipment Mission Tools Aircraft Tracker MTS NEX JPL Hurricane Tool LaRC Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) ASP Data Repository 3D Models Flight Request PI Support Current Call Letter Transport of passengers on NASA Aircraft Pre-Proposal Support Costing Support SATCOM Requirements Engineering Support Flight Request Procedures Situational Awareness FAQs SOFRS FAQs Inactive Aircraft ASP Sensor Network Mishap Preparedness and Contingency Plan DocumentsFall 2023 - Newsletter 2024 - Call Letter 2023 - Annual ReportMore Documents News NASA Selects New Aircraft-Driven Studies of Earth and Climate... NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality... Read more Hazy Skies in a Growing City Chiang Mai, the largest city in northern Thailand, is famed for having hundreds of Buddhist temples, some of which date to the city’s founding in th... Read more Grappling with Thailand’s Seasonal Haze Each year in January and February, satellites begin to detect waves of smoke and fire in Southeast Asia, particularly in highland forests in Cambodia,... Read more A Tale of Three Pollutants It was a hazy August day on Chicago’s South Side, and Nedra Sims Fears was hosting a small gathering to talk about the air. Interstate-94, which bis... Read More NASA Ames’ Contributions to OSIRIS-REx NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will manage an experiment taking advantage of the OSIRIS-REx sample arrival to study characteri... Read More Surf, Turf, Above Earth: Students Participate in NASA Field... Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air t... Read More NASA Student Airborne Research Program 2023: Sky-High Science... NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center hosted undergraduate students for the 2023 Student Airborne Research Program. An eight-week summer interns... Watch Video 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 View News Archive About the Airborne Science Program The Airborne Science Program within the Earth Science Division is responsible for providing aircraft systems that further science and advance the use of satellite data. The primary objectives of this program are to: Satellite Calibration and Validation Provide platforms to enable essential calibration measurements for the Earth observing satellites, and the validation of data retrieval algorithms. Support New Sensor Development Provide sub-orbital flight opportunities to test and refine new instrument technologies/algorithms, and reduce risk prior to committing sensors for launch into space. Process Studies Obtain high-resolution temporal and spatial measurements of complex local processes, which can be coupled to global satellite observations for a better understanding of the complete Earth system. Develop the Next-Generation of Scientists and Engineers Foster the development of our future workforce with the hands-on involvement of graduate students, and young scientists/engineers in all aspects of ongoing Earth science investigations. To meet these observing objectives ASP maintains and operates a suite of sustained, ongoing platforms and sensors on which investigators can rely from year to year. From these known capabilities the Science Mission Directorate can develop observing strategies. However, an ongoing capability will be resource-constrained and eventually technology-constrained, so that not all observing requirements will be met with the limited core capability. Therefore the program facilitates access to other platforms or sensors on a funds-available, as-needed basis, to accommodate unique and/or occasional requirements. The Program also looks for new or evolving technologies to demonstrate their applicability for Earth science. Depending on the success of the demonstrations and the observing needs, the core capability is expected to evolve and change over time. The speed and extent of change will be balanced against the need for established, known capabilities for long-term planning. Current Airborne Missions Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interacting... Read more Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) Read more Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air ... Read More More Airborne Missions Asset Tracker Asset Tracker Locate ASP Platforms Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Research Opportunities NSPIRES ROSES 2011 Call Letter Airborne Science Flight Program Document: ASP call letter FY24 final v2.pdf More Research Opportunities Related Links Wallops Flight Facility Aircraft Office The Aircraft Office at the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) provides for the operation, maintenance, engineering, airworthiness, and mission support of assigned aircraft as well as the planning and conducting of Airborne Science missions. The Aircraft Office explores new areas of aircraft support and plans for capabilities to accommodate them, develop and implement rules and procedures required to ensure the effective management of aircraft operations, and provide safety and quality assurance oversight of all aircraft functions. The WFF Aircraft Office also supports logistical airlift needs, range surveillance, recovery operations, and a wide array of other aircraft functions. WFF Aircraft Office Website NASA Earth Science Project Office The E arth S cience P roject O ffice is a small group of success-oriented individuals providing project management for NASA’s Science...