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... investigator and research meteorologist at NASA1s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This Global Hawk will carry a laser system called the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL), the Scanning High-resolution ... down through the storm, measuring winds, temperature and humidity. "Instruments on the 'over-storm' Global Hawk will examine the role of deep thunderstorm systems in hurricane intensity change, particularly to detect ...

... FIRST SCIENCE FLIGHT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled ... station at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California's Mojave Desert. "The Global Hawk is a revolutionary aircraft for science because of its enormous range and endurance, said Paul ...

... -1@nasa.gov. -end- ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-034'' ''MEDIA DAY PLANNED FOR FIRST NASA GLOBAL HAWK SCIENCE CAMPAIGN'' WASHINGTON -- Reporters are invited to a media day in April to observe the ... , Md., David Fahey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., and Global Hawk project manager Chris Naftel from Dryden. To obtain credentials, journalists must submit a request to ...

NASA launched a two-stage solid-propellant Nike-Hawk sounding rocket from Wallops Island, carrying an 84-kg payload to a 164-km altitude. The flight, to demonstrate successful mating of a surplus Hawk engine with the Nike M-88 first stage, also tested a newly developed recovery system for both the single-stage Hawk and the Nike-Hawk vehicle. The system, designed for both land or air recovery, could return up ...

... Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX), a multi-year airborne science campaign with a heavily instrumented Global Hawk aircraft, will take off from and be operated by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center ... and project manager Dave Jordan of Ames, ATTREX scientists installed 11 instruments in the Global Hawk. The instruments include remote sensors for measuring clouds, trace gases and temperatures above and below ...

... transcontinental balloon trip, a father-son team landed the 75-foot-tall helium-filled Kitty Hawk on Canada's Gaspe peninsula at 7:27 EDT after a May 8 liftoff in ... , and his son Kris, 23, of Albuquerque, N.M., had planned to land in Kitty Hawk, N.C., but were blown by brisk winds toward Maine and Canada. They had met ... with strong winds, rain, and snowstorms over Wyoming. Despite their failure to land at Kitty Hawk, the team set distance records: a previous balloon record was set last year by a ...

... Division of San Diego, California, for services in support of its Northrop Grumman -manufactured Global Hawk aircraft. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC planned to operate the two uncrewed aircraft ... of Earth science research and the research of NASA’s SMD. ''NASA, “NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to Northrop Grumman ,” news release C08-050, 7 August, 2008, http://www.nasa ...

... atmospheric gases into this region, investigators will launch four airborne campaigns with NASA's Global Hawk remotely piloted aerial systems. The flights will study chemical and physical processes at different times ... hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin using two NASA Global Hawks flying high above the storms for up to 30 hours. The Hawks will deploy from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in ...

... , engineering, and math (STEM) careers. ''RELEASE 18-014'' '''NASA Honors Legacy of Renowned Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking''' The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of visionary physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, early Wednesday morning. “Today, the world lost ...

... with more extensive experimental payload capability. ''(M&R, 12/16/63, 39)'' Activities at Kitty Hawk, N.C., commemorating 60th anniversary of powered flight (Dec. 17, 1903) : Youth Seminar on Flight ... , Inc. Release, 12/16/63)'' At ceremonies commemorating 60th anniversary of powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Walter Bonney, director of public information for Aerospace dorp. and former director of ...

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