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Program Airborne Missions NASA Headquarters NASA Ames Research Center News NASA Armstrong (Dryden) Flight Research Center Student Airborne Research Program Documents NASA Earth Expeditions Blog NASA Johnson Space Center NASA Langley Research Center NASA Wallops Flight Facility Research Opportunities Related Links Videos Platforms All Platforms Aircraft Comparison Mission Map Core Aircraft Video Asset Tracker Flight Request Aircraft Current Status Aircraft Overview Schedule Aircraft Detailed Schedule 5 - Year Plan Aircraft Activities by Flight Request NASA/ESA Calendar Flight Reports ASP Sensor Network Instrumentation Instrument Database Facility Instruments Instrument TRL levels Engineering Support ASP Sensor Network Payload Information Form Mission Tools Aircraft Tracker Map ASP Mission Tools Science Reports ACCE NEX Airborne Data Search JPL Hurricane Tool LaRC Toolsets for Airborne Data Flight Request PI Support Current Call Letter Pre-Proposal Support Costing Support SATCOM Requirements Engineering Support Flight Request Procedures Situational Awareness FAQs SOFRS FAQ's ASP Sensor Network Mishap Preparedness and Contingency Plan Documents -- Fall 2019 - Newsletter 2020 - Call Letter 2018 - Annual Report -- More Documents News NASA Flights Detect Millions of Arctic Methane Hotspots The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on the planet. As temperatures rise, the perpetually frozen layer of soil, called permafrost, begins t... Read More: Probing the Hazy Mysteries of Marine Clouds A new NASA airborne science mission will take researchers on coordinated flights above, through and below the clouds over the western North Atlantic O... Read More: NASA Snow-Chasers Set to Fly Into East Coast Winter Storms This month NASA is sending a team of scientists, a host of ground instruments, and two research aircraft to study the inner workings of snowstorms. Th... Read More: Media Invited to Preview of New NASA Field Campaigns NASA is inviting members of the media to a behind-the-scenes tour and briefing on five new research campaigns that will take to the field in 2020 to... Read More: NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar... For eleven years from 2009 through 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on t... Read More: NASA to Study East Coast Snowstorms from VA. Skies NASA has announced it will use Wallops Island Flight Facility, just south of Chincoteague Island, as a jumping-off point to study Atlantic snowstorms ... Read More: NASA Embarks on Five U.S. Expeditions Targeting Air, Land and Sea NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and t... Read More: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 View News Archive About the Airborne Science Program Airborne Science Program Overview - June 2019 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 Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the We... Visit Mission Website Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation fo... Visit Mission Website Operation IceBridge Visit Mission Website More Airborne Missions Asset Tracker Asset Tracker Locate ASP Platforms Twitter @NASAAirborne RSS Tweets by @NASAAirborne Research Opportunities Student Airborne Research Program The invites highly motivated advanced undergraduates who will be rising seniors in summer 2020 to apply for participation in the 12th annual NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP 2020). The purpose of the Student Airborne Research Program is to provide students with hands-on research experience in all aspects of a major scientific campaign, from detailed planning on how to achieve mission objectives to formal presentation of results and conclusions to peers and others. Students will work in multi-disciplinary teams to study surface, atmospheric, and oceanographic processes. Participants will fly onboard the NASA DC-8 and assist in the operation of instruments to sample and measure atmospheric gases and to image land and water surfaces in multiple spectral bands. Along with airborne data collection, students will participate in taking measurements at field sites. Each student will complete an individual research project from the data collecte...