Monday July 22 - Outside testing for Ku comms and Cronus checkout, 0600-1430 (no PIs needed)
Pending: HIWRAP Battery switch, new camera lens for nose camera.
Saturday July 20 – CPL and AVAP powered in hangar.
Sunday July 21 – HARD DOWN DAY
Monday July 22 – Wt & Balance and fueling
Tuesday July 23 - Initial Outdoor Payload-IT testing, 0800-1430
Friday July 19 – PI Instrument backbone test.
Friday July 19 – Indoor power-on testing in afternoon
Saturday July 20 – PIs travel home. Return Aug 4. Ops begin Aug 5.
Sunday July 21 – HARD DOWN DAY
Monday July 22 - Outside testing for Ku comms and Cronus checkout, 0600-1430 (no PIs needed)
Pending: HIWRAP Battery switch, new camera lens for nose camera.
Friday July 19 – Final integration.
NASA's 2013 HS3 mission will investigate whether Saharan dust and its associated warm and dry air, known as the Saharan Air Layer favors or suppresses the development of tropical cyclones.
NASA's multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission may explore tropical cyclones of Cape Verde origins when it takes to the skies again this August.
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