In December 2010, NASA deployed for the first time the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL), an airborne simulator for Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) algorithm development. Between 2010 and 2013, engineering flights were conducted in the continental United States, to ready the instrument for deployments to Alaska and Iceland, where flight lines could be designed and flown over sea ice and grounded ice. Ultimately, MABEL engineering missions included: 1) flights based out of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (California, formerly Dryden Flight Research Center) in 2010, 2011, and 2012; flights based out of NASA Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) in 2012; flights based out of NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia) in 2013; and flights based out of the Mojave Air and Space Port (California) in 2013.


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    Title :

    Mabel Engineering Flights, 2010-2013: Flight Report



    Publication date :

    2019-07-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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