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The National Academies will appoint an ad hoc committee to conduct a fast-track study to inform NASA’s future investments in suborbital airborne facilities. NASA’s Airborne Science Program provides a variety of aircraft systems that support Earth observing by bridging global satellite observations with surface-based, smaller scale measurements. This study will consider how airborne platforms could maximize contributions and/or provide unique inputs to integrated (satellite/airborne/surface/modeling) approaches to answering the science questions posed in Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space (2018).
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Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities: Assessing the Future Need for a Large Aircraft
Consensus Study Report
·2021
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other airborne platforms that offer diverse capabilities. To inform NASA's future investments in airborne platforms, this study examines whether a large aircraft...
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