The accompanying table is an update of a similar table published in the May/June 1994 issue of The Earth Observer. The intent is to let investigators know of planned scientific flight opportunities that may offer the possibility of shared resources for Earth observation. Some of the missions shown require deployments that could provide possible "piggyback" opportunities in the areas to be over flown during such "ferry" flights. In some instances, advanced knowledge of the mission will facilitate arrangements for sharing of data.
In these times of federal downsizing and fiscal reductions, the need for outyear planning has become of paramount importance. Critical scientific activity must be identified as early as possible to insure that proper funding and logistics planning can maintain each program's effectiveness. Entries in the table do not necessarily indicate firm commitments to carry out these missions, but should nevertheless serve as a guide to the possibilities for cooperative airborne research activities.
The EOS Project Science Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center would like to extend the usefulness of tables like that of NASA flights shown here, and invites reports from other groups describing planned flights that could provide opportunities for sharing.
Following is a list of the acronyms for the various organizations and missions that appear on the table.
Table 1. ELV and
Shuttle Mission
Table 2. DC-8 and
ER-2
Table 3. C-130B,
P-3B, and C-130Q
Table 4. T-39E,
UH-1, and Mission Support Aircraft
ADEOS Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
AES Airborne Emission Spectrometer
AOL Airborne Oceanographic Lidar
ARC NASA Ames Research Center
ASAS Advanced Solid-state Array Spectroradiometer
ASTRO Astronomy Platform (Shuttle)
ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and
Science
AVIRIS Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging
Spectrometer
AVIS Airborne Vegetation Index Sensor
BARC Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
CY Calendar Year
DIAL Differential Absorption Lidar
DoD Department of Defense
ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle (Rocket, Pegasus
etc.)
ESTAR Electronically Scanned Thinned Array
Radiometer
FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
FY Fiscal Year
GFCR Gas Filter Correlation Radiometer
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GTE/PEM Global Tropospheric Experiment/Pacific
Exploratory Mission
HAB Habitation Module, Shuttle/Space Station
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
KSC Kennedy Space Center
LASAL Large Aperture Scanning Airborne Lidar
LASE Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment
LMS Logistics Module, Shuttle
MAC Multiple Aircraft Campaign
MACAWS Multiagency Airborne Coherent Atmospheric
Wind Sounder
MAG Magnetic, Geo-Magnetic or Io-Magnetic
MAG-DIP Magnetic Dip Campaign
MAS MODIS Airborne Simulator
MODIS Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSA Mission Support Aircraft
MSBLS Microwave Shuttle Beam Landing System
MSTI Miniature Seeker Technology Integration
NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NMS & NADIR Navigation Management System & Nadir Port
(for sensor viewing)
ORB COMM Communications Satellite
ORSTED Danish Geomagnetic Field Mapping Mission
OZONE Ozone Monitoring Mission
QCM Quartz Crystal Microbalance
RASCAL Raster Scanning Airborne Laser
SAS Subsonic Assessment
SASS Stratospheric Aerosols, Subsonic Assessment
Program
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCAR-B Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation, Mission B
SEAWIFS Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SFU-RET Space Flyer Unit-Return (Japan)
SLA Shuttle Laser Altimeter
SLICER Scanning Lidar Imager of Canopies by Echo
Recovery
SLM Space Lab Module (Mir Docking)
SMM U.S./Russian Mir Docking Mission
SMOKE Smoke used to make aircraft "WAKE/VORTEX"
visible
SRA Scanning Radar Altimeter
STEP USAF Space Technology Program
STRAT Stratospheric Tracer Transport Experiment
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
SRL Shuttle Radar Laboratory
STS Space Transport System, Space Shuttle
SWAS Sub-millimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
TAMMS Turbulent Air Motion Measurement System
TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
TIMS Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOTE Tropical Ozone Transfer Experiment
UAF Upper Atmospheric Flash
USML U.S. Microgravity Lab (Shuttle)
USMP U.S. Microgravity Payload
VOTE Vortex Ozone Transfer Experiment
WAKE/VORTEX Aircraft Wing Vortex Experiment
WIMP Water Impact Payload
WFF NASA Wallops Flight Facility
WSF Wake Shield Facility
X-STORM Thunderstorm Research Program
XTE X-ray Timing Explorer