The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Hawk Project became operational in 2009 and began support of Earth science in 2010. Thus far, the NASA Global Hawk has completed three Earth science campaigns and preparations are under way for two extensive multi-year campaigns. One of the most desired performance capabilities of the Global Hawk aircraft is very long endurance: the Global Hawk aircraft can remain airborne longer than almost all other jet-powered aircraft currently flying, and longer than all other aircraft available for airborne science use. This paper describes the NASA Global Hawk system, payload accommodations, concept of operations, and the scientific data-gathering campaigns.


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    Title :

    NASA Global Hawk: Project Overview and Future Plans


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment ; 2011 ; Sydney, Australia


    Publication date :

    2011-04-10


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English