The Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) operates six highly modified aircraft in support the NASA science mission.These include two ER-2 aircraft, a DC-8, a G-III, and two Global Hawks. The NASA science missions demands that these aircraft be deployed around the globe while carrying a variety of science instruments. The ER-2 reconnaissance aircraft provides routine access to altitudes over 70,000 ft (20km) for large payloads and with an endurance of over 10hours. Recently the ER-2s have conducted convective storm research missions in the mid-western United States and supported the development of new instruments. The DC-8 is a four-engine jetliner that operates for up to 12 hours ataltitudes that range from the surface to 42,000 ft (13 km). Although its flight envelope is equivalent to conventional.
Operations of Suborbital Research Platforms to Obtain Remote Sensing Data
2014
29 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , SUBORBITAL FLIGHT , REMOTE SENSING , DATA PRODUCTS , RESEARCH AIRCRAFT , FLIGHT TEST VEHICLES , PILOTLESS AIRCRAFT , OPERATIONS , PROVING , FLIGHT TESTS , SIMULATORS , CLIMATOLOGY , LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT , OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS , LABORATORIES , AIRBORNE EQUIPMENT , SPACE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTS , SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR , AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE RADAR , INTERFEROMETERS , COLLISION AVOIDANCE , TOPOGRAPHY
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