Airborne Science

Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
B200
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while flying at high speeds up to 500 mph. The instrument is Soxnav, the culmination of more than 30 years of development of aircraft navigation systems. NASA’s G-IV aircraft flew its first mission to test this […]
Posted February 7, 2025
Airborne Science
Ames Research Center
Earth Science Division
NASA has awarded Dynamic Aviation Group Inc. of Bridgewater, Virginia, the Commercial Aviation Services contract to support the agency’s Airborne Science Program.
Posted February 3, 2025
Earth Science
Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Earth
Earth Science Division
Analysis of data from NASA radar aboard an airplane shows that the decades-old active landslide area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula has expanded.
Posted January 31, 2025
Ames Research Center
Airborne Science
Earth Science Division
Flight Opportunities Program
NASA is participating in a collaborative effort to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires.   The rugged and often remote locations where wildland fires burn mean cell phone service is often limited, making communication between firefighters and command posts difficult.
Posted November 14, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airborne Science
Earth Science
Earth's Atmosphere
ER-2
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Science Mission Directorate
Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform.
Posted October 25, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
From sea to sky to orbit, a range of vantage points allow NASA Earth scientists to collect different types of data to better understand our changing planet. Collecting them together, at the same place and the same time, is an important step used to verify the accuracy of satellite data. NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean […]
Posted September 4, 2024
Airborne Science
Climate Change
Earth
NASA invites media to view a research aircraft and interview scientists in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 22, prior to flights of the agency’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which seeks a better understanding of the sensitivity of northern ecosystems and communities to climate change.
Posted August 14, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts […]
Posted July 26, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
Wallops Flight Facility
This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.   The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.
Posted June 14, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]
Posted May 31, 2024
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