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NASA, Partners Explore Sustainable Fuel’s Effects on Aircraft Contrails
Contrails, the lines of clouds from high-flying aircraft that crisscross the skies, are familiar sights, but they may have an…
Joe Piotrowski, Jr.: One Engineer’s (Flight) Path to Airborne Science
Based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Joe Piotrowski is the lead operations engineer for the King…
NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event
NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event
NASA to Host Virtual Media Day / Webinar for ALOFT Airborne Science Mission
Media are invited to a virtual media day on Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 8:00-9:00 AM PST to learn about NASA…
NASA-led Mission to Map Air Pollution in 3D Over Megacities
The STAQS mission is connecting air quality from space to skies to the streets of Chicago, New York, Toronto, and…
Low-Altitude Flights Study Everyday Emissions
Often research associated with air quality and pollution prioritizes transportation – especially car emissions – as an area of focus.…
NASA Student Airborne Research Program celebrates 15 years of success
This summer, NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) will celebrate its 15th anniversary.
Utilizing NASA’s B200 King Air to Study Snowmelt Levels
More than 1 billion people rely on seasonal mountain snowmelt as a resource for their water supply and a team…
NASA’s ER-2 Completes Snowstorm Study Support
NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, completed more than 30 flights in…
NASA’s SOFIA to Fly Low-Altitude Flight Over Local Area
PALMDALE, Calif.- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will be flying from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale,…
New NASA Aircraft Helps Researchers Evaluate Technologies for Urban Transport Systems
When researchers test communications technology for the national airspace, they will be using a newly acquired tool at NASA’s Glenn…
Congresswoman Eshoo Tours SOFIA Flying Observatory Upon Its Retirement
On Oct. 14, 2022, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo and Eugene Tu, center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s…
NASA’s Legacy of Science, Engineering in Retiring Airborne Observatory
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was a mission of discovery, revealing unseen – and sometimes unseeable – parts…
NASA Flies Students on DC-8 to Study Air Quality
A group of university students and mentors flew aboard NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft to study air quality…
NASA, Partner Decide to Conclude SOFIA Mission
NASA and its partners at the German Space Agency at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) will conclude…
NASA’s X-59 Arrives Back in California Following Critical Ground Tests
The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic experimental aircraft, has arrived back at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, following…
NASA’s ER-2 No. 806 Returns to Flight
NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft No. 806 returned to flight after three years of significant modifications and heavy maintenance. Flying from…
NASA Planes Fly into Snowstorms to Study Snowfall
Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There’s…
Exploring Earth: Student Airborne Researchers fly on NASA’s DC-8
After a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 53 students flew on NASA’s DC-8 as part of NASA’s Student…
NASA’s DC-8 Deploys to the U.S. Virgin Islands
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft deploys to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Aug. 17 after more than six months…
NASA Mission Explores Intense Summertime Thunderstorms
NASA and university scientists will be studying the intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States to understand their effects…
NASA Retires a Research Workhorse
When the U.S. Navy retired its fleet of S-3B Vikings from active duty in 2009, not all of them were…
X-56B Begins New Flight Series
The X-56B remotely piloted aircraft began a new flight series. The flight was April 19 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research…
NASA’s DC-8 Returns to Flight
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft returned to the skies on Jan. 6 after more than a year of maintenance, which included an…
NASA Begins Flight Testing Campaign for Future Airspace Mobility
Imagine air taxis, drones, cargo transports and package delivery services working in harmony in the National Airspace System with piloted…
ACTIVATE Makes a Careful Return to Flight
Four months ago, with COVID-19 disrupting life across the globe, it seemed virtually unthinkable that a major NASA airborne science…
NASA Takes Flight to Study California’s Wildfire Burn Areas
While the agency’s satellites image the wildfires from space, scientists are flying over burn areas, using smoke-penetrating technology to better…
Global Hawk High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, operates two Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for high-altitude, long-duration missions.…
History of Airborne Astronomy at NASA
Sixty years ago, in 1958, NASA was founded as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The agency has a long…
New Technology Doubles Scientists’ View of Ocean-Air Interactions
NASA scientists are hard at work trying to unlock mysteries of our planet’s ocean surface currents and winds using a…
