[Oracles-er2-investigators] [Oracles] P3 test flight #2 landed and successful

Tue Aug 9 08:44:16 PDT 2016

EMAS may take two or even three full days after arrival to be ready for flight.  It will all depend on the status of the vacuum in the COB (Cold Optical Bench.)  We have never done three consecutive long flights without pumping before, so the vacuum will have to re-established, and then it takes about 8 hours to get back to operating temperature (~77K.)

FYI, Attached is an EMAS image pair from the last test flight, over the Soberanes fire (Natural color & SWIT/LWIR composites.)

-Jeff

From: oracles-er2-investigators [mailto:oracles-er2-investigators-bounces at espo.nasa.gov] On Behalf Of Ferrare, Richard A. (LARC-E304)
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 6:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Oracles-er2-investigators] [Oracles] P3 test flight #2 landed and successful

ER-2 instrument folks,

It would also be helpful to know how soon after the ER-2 arrives in Namibia would your instrument be ready for a science flight (next day, two days, etc.?) and if there any special conditions that need to be met  for this to happen.

Thanks,

Rich

From: Oracles [mailto:oracles-bounces at espo.nasa.gov] On Behalf Of Jens Redemann
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 5:16 PM
To: LeBlanc, Samuel (ARC-SGG)[Bay Area Environmental Research Institute] <samuel.leblanc at nasa.gov<mailto:samuel.leblanc at nasa.gov>>; oracles at espo.nasa.gov<mailto:oracles at espo.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Oracles] P3 test flight #2 landed and successful

That's terrific. Thanks, Sam.

ER-2 instrumenters,

if you could update your instrument status in the appropriate tab of the google doc linked below, I would greatly appreciate it. This will help our team communication tremendously, I believe.

Thanks in advance for your efforts to keep this information up to date,

Jens
On 8/6/2016 2:20 PM, LeBlanc, Samuel (ARC-SGG)[Bay Area Environmental Research Institute] wrote:
Jens, other instrumenters,

I went ahead and changed the spreadsheet to include a tab for the ER2 and a separate tab to split out the status of the cloud probes and the HiGEAR instrument suites. Please find below a link that will allow you to edit the document.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N5cQvTC_OGmbqBcIYCzDBJL1tN9S1lyxQKWppVhVLmo/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you.
Samuel
     :)

From: Oracles [mailto:oracles-bounces at espo.nasa.gov] On Behalf Of Jens Redemann
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 18:47
To: oracles at espo.nasa.gov<mailto:oracles at espo.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Oracles] P3 test flight #2 landed and successful

Thanks so much, Sam.

Congratulations to the P-3 crew and instrumenters on a job very well done. There were some significant hurdles and you cleared them beautifully. I absolutely love the instrument status tab on the google docs spreadsheet. That will likely be the way we will move forward with instrument status summaries. Would it be OK, if we added a tab for the ER-2 instrument status as well and renamed the doc ORACLES aircraft summaries or something like it? Or should we start a separate google doc for that?

Thanks again to all involved with the P-3 for getting us to this point.

Jens
On 8/5/2016 2:30 PM, LeBlanc, Samuel (ARC-SGG)[Bay Area Environmental Research Institute] wrote:
Hello all,
We have just landed from the 2nd P3 test flight. It went well; we got almost all objectives. The clear air was less clear than hoped and forecasted, but there was some useable periods. The cloudy portion near Wallops was less cloudy than hoped, but still got some good short cloud penetrations with some small droplets. We did get low flying over ocean, with a couple of ship plume interceptions. Almost all instruments worked well including PDI, CCN did not, neither did CAPS from the cloud probes, and TDMA from the HiGEAR rack. HiGEAR did find more leaks than they had hoped.

A summary from the flight can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oCbUDLEET5EuWoEpLywl9OBosLJzZpkC4opo-8hyeY/edit?usp=sharing

A summary of the status of the instruments can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N5cQvTC_OGmbqBcIYCzDBJL1tN9S1lyxQKWppVhVLmo/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you.
Samuel
    :)

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