P-3 Orion 11/16/17
| From: | SAWH | To: | SAWH | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 11/16/17 13:47 Z | Finish: | 11/16/17 22:50 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 9.1 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 18P006 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
| Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| Comments: | OIB successfully flew the high priority Venable 01 A mission. This is a new flight, primarily designed to map the bathymetry beneath the Venable Ice Shelf. This and the Venable 01B flight are companion flights. Each flight by itself establishes a grid spaced at 20 km, and together they establish a 20 km grid. | ||||
| 18P006 | |
|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 151 |
| Total Used | 156 |
| Total Remaining | -5 |
| 18P006 Flight Reports | ||||||
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| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 10/17/17 | OIB - Airworthiness Test Flight | Check | 1.1 | 1.1 | 149.9 | |
| 10/18/17 | OIB - Project Test Flight | Check | 3.5 | 4.6 | 146.4 | |
| 10/19/17 | OIB PTF - Radar | Check | 4.5 | 9.1 | 141.9 | |
| 10/23/17 | OIB - Transit leg #1 | Transit | 7.1 | 16.2 | 134.8 | |
| 10/24/17 | OIB - Transit leg #2 | Transit | 6.5 | 22.7 | 128.3 | |
| 10/25/17 | OIB - Transit leg #3 | Transit | 7 | 29.7 | 121.3 | |
| 10/29/17 - 10/30/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #1 | Science | 9.7 | 39.4 | 111.6 | |
| 10/31/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #2 | Science | 8.9 | 48.3 | 102.7 | |
| 11/03/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #3 | Science | 9 | 57.3 | 93.7 | |
| 11/04/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #4 | Science | 9.3 | 66.6 | 84.4 | |
| 11/12/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #5 | Science | 9.5 | 76.1 | 74.9 | |
| 11/14/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #6 | Science | 9.8 | 85.9 | 65.1 | |
| 11/16/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #7 | Science | 9.1 | 95 | 56 | |
| 11/21/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #8 | Science | 9.4 | 104.4 | 46.6 | |
| 11/22/17 - 11/23/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #9 | Science | 9.9 | 114.3 | 36.7 | |
| 11/24/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #10 | Science | 9.6 | 123.9 | 27.1 | |
| 11/25/17 - 11/26/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #11 | Science | 9.5 | 133.4 | 17.6 | |
| 11/27/17 | OIB-Ushuaia SAWH-SCDA Transit Flight | Transit | 7 | 140.4 | 10.6 | |
| 11/28/17 | OIB-Ushuaia SCDA-MROC Transit Flight | Transit | 7 | 147.4 | 3.6 | |
| 11/29/17 | OIB-Ushuaia MROC-KNGU Transit Flight | Transit | 6.3 | 153.7 | -2.7 | |
| 11/29/17 | OIB-Ushuaia KNGU-KWAL Transit Flight | Transit | 0.8 | 154.5 | -3.5 | |
| 12/04/17 | OIB-Post Mission Calibration Flight | Science | 1.5 | 156 | -5 | |
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OIB - P-3 Orion 11/16/17 Science Report
OIB successfully flew the high priority Venable 01 A mission. This is a new flight, primarily designed to map the bathymetry beneath the Venable Ice Shelf. This and the Venable 01B flight are companion flights. Each flight by itself establishes a grid spaced at 20 km, and together they establish a 20 km grid.
The weather call this morning was somewhat difficult as imagery from early in the morning showed low clouds in the area. All forecast models showed clear skies during the mission time, and the GEOS-5 model showed the cloudy skies from the imagery time would begin to clear near our launch time. We delayed take-off for one hour to see if we could get more imagery to support this hypothesis and give the low clouds time to clear. Indeed this worked well and the mission was flown under very good weather conditions. All instruments performed well on the flight.
Data volumes
ATM: T6: 25 Gb T7: 32 Gb
FLIR: 3.0 Gb
Cambot: 8 Gb
KT19: 12 Mb
DMS: 12.1 Gb
MCoRDS: 241 Gb
Gravity/Magnetometer: 3 Gb
Accumulation radar: 277 Gb
Snow/Ku radar: 280 Gb
data on: 1739
data off: 1859
