NASA's Global Hawk research aircraft returned to its base at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., early Friday morning March 14, marking the completion of flights in support of this year's Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment…
NASA's Global Hawk No. 872 completed a 17.5-hour science flight Feb. 14, it's first for the 2014 Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) mission. The unmanned aircraft, carrying a suite of specialized instruments, flew from Andersen Air Force Base on the…
A NASA Global Hawk recently completed a checkout flight of science instruments in preparation for a study of the moisture and chemical composition of the stratosphere over the western Pacific Ocean. In December, Global Hawk 872 flew more than six…
Global models of the climate system are now the foundation for many important climate studies, but they typically show climate changes at very large geographic scales on the order of 100 to 250 kilometers. Some data sets have scaled that…
NASA has transferred wildfire imaging technology to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Boise, Idaho and will exhibit the integrated sensor inside the USFS Cessna Citation jet between 12 and 2 p.m. PDT Thursday April 18, 2013 at Moffett Airfield, Calif.…