{"id":558,"date":"2013-05-21T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.10.99\/KES\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:35:47","slug":"science-enabled-by-the-platforms-of-air-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/2013\/05\/21\/science-enabled-by-the-platforms-of-air-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Science enabled by the platforms of Air &#038; Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/mission-ames\/2013\/05\/21\/post_1369160186679\/\">https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/mission-ames\/2013\/05\/21\/post_1369160186679\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m out here at NASA Dryden\u2019s Aircraft Operations Facility,the DAOF, to support line operations for the Stratospheric Observatory forInfrared Astronomy, SOFIA. I\u2019m normally a spacecraft science instrument builder, having previously tested detectors for astronomy space telescopes Spitzer and JWST and building, testing and operating a 10 instrument payload for LCROSS that impacted the moon in 2009 detecting water within a permanently shadowed crater. And since 2011, I am working instrument calibration operations for the en-flight probe to Pluto, New Horizons.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, SOFIA, being an aircraft, is a very different experience for me, coming from the spacecraft side of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the DAOF with SOFIA are some of the world\u2019s premiere aircraft used for Earth Science observations, measuring in-situ molecules in our planet\u2019s atmosphere, capitalizing on a mobile platform that can go monitor fires, or survey ice sheets at the poles, or observe transient phenomena like meteor showers or spacecraft or space-sample return capsules.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this amazing suite of aircraft and their objectives at <a href=\"http:\/\/airbornescience.nasa.gov\/\">NASA\u2019s Airborne Science Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dc8_sofia_daof_2013-05-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-559\" src=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dc8_sofia_daof_2013-05-20-300x225.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dc8_sofia_daof_2013-05-20-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dc8_sofia_daof_2013-05-20.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight we roll out ~8pm local time for first night of line ops from the 11pm-5am shift. I\u2019m very eager to experience this important prep-activity for SOFIA commissioning science flights which start next week.<\/p>\n<p>More information about SOFIA&#8217;s unique science can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/SOFIA\/index.html\">NASA SOFIA Web Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/mission-ames\/2013\/05\/21\/post_1369160186679\/. I\u2019m out here at NASA Dryden\u2019s Aircraft Operations Facility,the DAOF, to support line operations for the Stratospheric Observatory forInfrared Astronomy, SOFIA. I\u2019m normally a spacecraft science instrument builder, having previously tested detectors for astronomy space telescopes Spitzer and JWST and building, testing and operating a 10 instrument payload for LCROSS that impacted the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/2013\/05\/21\/science-enabled-by-the-platforms-of-air-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science enabled by the platforms of Air &#038; Space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}