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ORACLES 09/26/18 Mission Daily Schedule

Science Flight #PRF01Y18
0430 Hotel Limited Breakfast
0530 Weather Briefing
0545 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport 
0630 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport
0715 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport (to view takeoff)
0730 P-3 doors closed
0800 P-3 takeoff - 8 hour flight
0815 Shuttle: Airport to Hotel
0900 Weather and chemical weather forecasts 
1000 Daily flight planning meeting
1100 Shuttle: Hotel to SuperCKdo to Hotel
1500 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport
1600 P-3 Landing
1615 Shuttle: Airport to Hotel

ORACLES 09/22/18 Mission Daily Schedule

September 22nd - Departure from Barbados to Cabo Verde  
0900  Take-off for a 7.5 hour flight
~1930  Arrival at Cabo Verde

Development of neural network retrievals of liquid cloud properties from multi-angle polarimetric observations

Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2018), Development of neural network retrievals of liquid cloud properties from multi-angle polarimetric observations, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 220, 39-51, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.08.030.

ORACLES 08/30/18 Mission Daily Schedule

Achievements for August 30 and plan for August 31

HiGEAR

  • An AMS component has been shipped out for repair.
  • Left this afternoon and will return when equipment is returned

UND Wing Probes

  • Rack is ready and waiting to go on
  • Right wing is wired but no power yet to 3 out of 4 instruments
  • Mechs are working power issues

PDI

ORACLES 08/29/18 Mission Daily Schedule

Achievements August 29 and plans for August 30

UND/wing probes

  • Decision to use new canister; ready to be installed and tested either late next Wed or Thurs
  • Rack will be ready to be loaded onto the plane tomorrow morning
  • Can start testing probes on the right wing
  • Left inboard side could possibly be done late tomorrow 

PDI

ORACLES 08/29/18 Mission Daily Schedule

Accomplishments August 28 and plans for August 29

UND/Cloud probes

  • Rack is populated and will be ready to load onto the plane sometime late morning.
  • Trying to locate a missing adaptor mount for one of the canisters, and exploring options for using a different one if it cannot be located.

PDI

  • Jennifer is waiting for her equipment to get back via FedEx.

HiGEAR

ORACLES 08/22/18 Mission Daily Schedule

0800 hangar/labs open
0815 punch list meeting and a/c door open
1600 a/c power off
NLT 1615 – meeting to review work completed & tomorrow's plan
1630 mech/eng support ends
1830 hangar/labs/ a/c closed

Teams present: 4STAR, COMA, DATA, PDI, SSFR, TAMMS

ORACLES 08/16/18 Mission Daily Schedule

POD August 16th
0800 Hangar Access
0815 Aircraft Access
1630 Daily Debrief

Teams Present
HiGEAR
APR-3
SSFR
HSRL2
RSP
TAMMS
DATA

Achievements
Today was another long day, most teams present until 1830. (see photos in the email)

ORACLES 08/15/18 Mission Daily Schedule

0800 Hangar Open
0815 Aircraft Access
1630 Daily Debrief

Teams Present
HiGEAR
APR-3
SSFR
HSRL-2
RSP
TAMMS
DATA (arriving today, Aug 15th)

Achievements
HiGEAR - Venturi plate mounted, air shipment packing
APR-3 Bombay work, air shipment packing
SSFR- Active leveling position and running lines
HSRL-2 Rack lifted, nadir plate, heater fan, vent, seats and instrument work

ORACLES 08/13/18 Mission Daily Schedule

POD Aug 13th
0800 Hangar Access
0815 P-3 Access

Teams Present
HiGEAR
APR-3

Teams arriving this week
HSRL-2
RSP
SSFR

Sunday (Aug 12th, 0800 to 1800, thank you Kelly) HiGEAR and APR-3 did air freight packing and continued instrument integration work.

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