Airborne Science Program

ER-2 #709 takes off from NASA Dryden

NASA's Airborne Science Program is administered from the NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Edwards, California. The program supports the sub-orbital flight requirements of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Dryden maintains and operates two ER-2 high-altitude "satellite simulator" aircraft and a DC-8 which is specially configured as a "flying laboratory".

The scientific disciplines that employ these aircraft include Earth sciences, astronomy, atmospheric chemistry, climatology, oceanography, archeology, ecology, forestry, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, volcanology and biology. The DC-8 and ER-2 are also important tools for the development of sensors intended to fly aboard future Earth-observing satellites, and to validate and calibrate the sensors which are used onboard satellites which currently orbit the Earth.

## Contents

* 1 NASA research aircraft types operated
* 1.1 Present
* 2 Media
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## NASA research aircraft types operated

### Present

Aircraft  | Number in service  | Introduced  | Research Center

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McDonnell Douglas DC-8  | 1  | 1987  | Armstrong Flight Research Center
Lockheed ER-2 | 2  | 1981  | Armstrong Flight Research Center
Gulfstream C-20A | 1  | 2008  | Armstrong Flight Research Center
Gulfstream III | 1  | 2012  | Johnson Space Center
Gulfstream III | 1  | 2012  | Langley Research Center
Gulfstream V | 1  | 2012  | Johnson Space Center
Lockheed P-3 Orion | 1  | 1991  | Wallops Flight Facility

## Media

* Airborne Science Safari 2000 Mission

* ER-2 in Sweden for the Sage III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment

## See also

* Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science

## References

## External links

* "NASA Airborne Science Program". NASA. Archived from the original on 29 September 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050929003701/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/AirSci/index.html. Retrieved October 18, 2005.

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