Platform Capabilities 4 In Brief.
ASP ARRA activities are moving forward. The ER-2 life support modifications are underway at the DAOF. The contract was awarded to modify the DFRC B-200 for science capablity. The procurement solicitation for the P-3 Avionics upgrade is due in early December. More NASA HQ reviews of ASP projects are...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.366.5656 http://airbornescience.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ASPnsltr_Jan_10.pdf |
| Summary: | ASP ARRA activities are moving forward. The ER-2 life support modifications are underway at the DAOF. The contract was awarded to modify the DFRC B-200 for science capablity. The procurement solicitation for the P-3 Avionics upgrade is due in early December. More NASA HQ reviews of ASP projects are slated in December. B-200 After battling the stimulus funding labyrinth, the King Air B-200 underwent its modification exercise at AVCON in November. Final configuration of the ports are in the documentation process. Expected completion of the modifications is May, 2010. SIERRA In mid-December the SIERRA UAV team at Ames supported a Shell Oil flight demonstration at Camp Roberts, CA for search & rescue and mammal monitoring capabilities. The payloads consisted of digital cameras and a C-band SAR. Continued on page 2 Operation Ice Bridge Two thousand-nine was a very successful first year for Operation Ice Bridge (OIB). OIB science requirements for Greenland and Antarctica set the bar very high for the NASA P-3 |
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