Date: Dec 12, 2002

Mission: ER-2 Ferry flight.

Mission Objectives

Ferry the ER-2 aircraft back to DFRC, with MAS and CPL instruments.  Non EOS photo work in Utah.

Flight Summary

Take-off at 1800 UTC.  ER-2 landed at about 2130 UTC.

ER-2 flew from SAT towards Utah for photo lines in Southern Utah.  Skies on this transit were partly to mostly cloudy though some clear sky land scenes in NW TX.  Photo lines contained some thin cloud.  ER-2 then proceeded to DFRC.  Scenes on transit to Utah for photo work were primarily partly cloudy over land.  Some clear scenes over land in NV.  Some cirrus scenes in CA.

Highlights

None.

Instrument Status

• Modis Airborne Simulator (MAS): Operated. Good data.
• NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I): Not Flown.
• Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL): Operated. Good data.
• Scanner High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS): Not Flown.
• VIS video camera: Good video data.
• M/VIS mini video camera: Good video data.
• RC-10 Cameras: B/W over S. Utah (~20 UTC).