IMPACTS

IMPACTS 01/12/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the Day for Thursday Jan 13, 2022
General announcements

  • Don’t forget to do your daily health screening (click here)
  • For the long range science plans, visit the IMPACTS field catalog (updated regularly)
  • Continue attending the daily briefings online if possible
  • Wear your masks at all time and maintain social distance

IMPACTS General
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx. Please consider attending virtually to the weather briefings whenever possible.

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Hard Down Day for Flight Crew
Instrument access will be available for those teams that need it. If you don’t, please work from the hotel.
0800 – ~1600 Instrument access to the P-3

Pope AAF/ER-2
Local Announcements:
  • Please continue to attend the daily weather brief from a remote location if you are not actively doing instrument work at Pope.
  • Photography in the direction of the Pope AAF flight line is prohibited.
  • If you don’t need to work on your instrument, please stay in your hotel

Thursday Jan 13, 2022
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access. Please stay in your hotel room if no instrument access is needed
Friday Jan 14, 2022
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access. Please stay in your hotel room if no instrument access is needed
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Hard Down day - No aircraft access.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Aircraft access TBD

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane)

IMPACTS 01/11/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the Day for Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
General announcements

  • Don’t forget to do your daily health screening (click here)
  • For the long range science plans, visit the IMPACTS field catalog (updated regularly)
  • Continue attending the daily briefings online if possible
  • Wear your masks at all time and maintain social distance

IMPACTS General
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx. Please consider attending virtually to the weather briefings whenever possible.

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
0800 – 1400 Instrument access to the P-3

Pope AAF/ER-2
Local Announcements:
  • Please continue to attend the daily weather brief from a remote location if you are not actively doing instrument work at Pope.
  • Photography in the direction of the Pope AAF flight line is prohibited.
  • If you don’t need to work on your instrument, please stay in your hotel

Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access. Please stay in your hotel room if no instrument access is needed
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access. Please stay in your hotel room if no instrument access is needed
Friday Jan 14, 2022
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access. Please stay in your hotel room if no instrument access is needed
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Hard Down day - No aircraft access.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Aircraft access TBD

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, IT: Sam Kim)

IMPACTS 01/10/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the Day for Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
General announcements

  • Don’t forget to do your daily health screening (click here)
  • For the long range science plans, visit the IMPACTS field catalog (updated regurlaly)
  • Continue attending the daily briefings online if possible
  • Wear your masks at all time

IMPACTS General
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
0800    Show time at hangar, P3 towed out for pre-flight
0830    Flight Safety Video required for new flyers in W162 conference room
0900    Daily weather Brief Click here for WebEx
0930    Pre-flight “plane side” brief for all flyers
1000    Take off for Calibration Flight
~1600    P3 return to WFF
~1630    Post Flight Debrief

Pope AAF/ER-2
Local Announcements:
  • Please continue to attend the daily weather brief from a remote location if you are not actively doing instrument work at Pope.
  • Photography in the direction of the Pope AAF flight line is prohibited.

Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
0730        Hangar doors open
0830 – 1630       Aircraft access

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, IT: Sam Kim

IMPACTS 01/09/22 Mission Daily Schedule
IMPACTS Plan of the Day for Monday Jan 10, 2022

Don’t forget to do your daily health screening (click here).

IMPACTS General
Monday Jan 10, 2022

0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Monday Jan 10, 2022

0800 - 1000       Potential maintenance on one of the P-3 engines and then engine turns outside for testing)

1000 - 1600       Normal access and power on the plane (if engine is fixed successfully)

Pope AAF/ER-2
Announcements:
  • Please continue to attend the daily weather brief from a remote location if you are not actively doing instrument work at Pope.
  • Photography in the direction of the Pope AAF flight line is prohibited.
Monday Jan 10, 2022

0830 - 1630        ER-2 instrument access

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, IT: Sam Kim)

IMPACTS 01/08/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the Day for Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Don’t forget to do your daily health screening (click here). 

IMPACTS General
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx
Monday Jan 10, 2022
0900      Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Hard down day, no access to the P-3
Monday Jan 10, 2022
0800 - 1000       NO ACCESS TO P-3 (maintenance on one engine and then engine turns outside for testing)
1000 - 1600       Normal access and power on the plane (if engine is fixed successfully)

Pope AAF/ER-2
Announcements:
  • Please continue to attend the daily weather brief from a remote location if you are not actively doing instrument work at Pope.
  • Photography in the direction of the Pope AAF flight line is prohibited.

Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Hard down day, no access to the ER-2. Science room will be open from 0830 - 1200.
Monday Jan 10, 2022
0830 - 1630        ER-2 instrument access

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, IT: Sam Kim)

IMPACTS 01/07/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the day for Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Don’t forget to do your daily health check (click here). 

IMPACTS General
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
0900 Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
0900 Weather brief -  Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
0800 to 1630      Access to the P-3 (Instrument teams don’t wait until the last minute to do your work)
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Hard down day for the P-3 (no access)

Pope AAF/ER-2
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
0800 ER-2 pre-takeoff briefing  - On Teams and Audio: +1 256-715-9946,,772735593#
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Hard down day for the ER-2 (no access)

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, IT: Sam Kim, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, Log: Quincy Allison).

IMPACTS 01/06/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the day for Friday, Jan 07, 2022
Don’t forget to do your daily health check (click here). 

IMPACTS General
Friday Jan 07, 2022
0900 Weather brief – Only though WEBEX -  Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Due to inclement weather, NASA Wallops will open its gates at 1000. No one is allowed in before 10AM.
0900                      Weather Briefing –  Only on Webex from your hotel/home.
1000                     WFF gates open (we will monitor the situation and make announcements as needed)
1000-1600         P-3: Power and instrument teams access

Pope AAF/ER-2
Friday Jan 07, 2022

0800 Hangar access
0800 ER-2 pre-takeoff briefing  - On Teams and Audio: +1 256-715-9946,,772735593#
0900 Project wide weather briefing – Click here for WebEx  Please join the call from your hotel room

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, IT: Sam Kim, PC: Lynn Kennedy), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, Log: Quincy Allison).

IMPACTS 01/05/22 Mission Daily Schedule

IMPACTS Plan of the day for Thursday, Jan 06, 2022
Don’t forget to do your daily health check (click here). 

IMPACTS General
Thursday, Jan 06 2022
0900 Weather brief – Click here for WebEx

Wallops/Ops/P-3
Thursday, Jan 06 2022
0800    Aircraft towed outside for pre-flight, access and power on the plane for science
0900    Weather brief and WFF Flight Safety video
1000    Take off for Instrument Check Flight (ICF) if all instrument teams are ready- if anyone needs more time because of the brief and the video, we’ll push out takeoff 
1000-1200       Check flight takeoff window for a 3 hour flight- the plane needs to be back at WFF NLT 1500 due to incoming weather
NLT 1500        P3 back at WFF
1500-1630       Post flight access and power for instrument teams

Pope AAF/ER-2
Thursday, Jan 06 2022
0900 Project wide weather briefing – Please join the call from your hotel room.
1030 access to the hangar if needed (after weather brief)
Continue to work on setup

ESPO on site: Wallops (PM: Vidal Salazar, IT: Sam Kim), Pope AAF (DPM: Caitlin Murphy, DPM: Erin Czech, Log: Stevie Phothisane, Log: Quincy Allison).

Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever

INSIDE A CAVERNOUS hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility along the Virginia coast, a gleaming white P-3 Orion aircraft sits parked under harsh floodlights. It’s just after midnight and a group of scientists, technicians and graduate students cluster underneath a wing, peering at a 5-inch crack in one of the ailerons that the pilot uses to maneuver the plane.

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