NASAのC-20Aが異常気象を研究( NASA’s C-20A Studies Extreme Weather Events)

2024-12-04 NASA

The UAVSAR underbelly pod is in clear view as NASA’s Gulfstream-III research aircraft banks away over Edwards AFB  NASA

＜関連情報＞

• https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasas-c-20a-studies-extreme-weather-events/
• https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/c-20a/

C-20A 環境科学研究航空機
C-20A Environmental Science Research Aircraft

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, flew the C-20A aircraft in support of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) campaign. NASA

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center operates a C-20A, a military version of the Gulfstream III business jet, as an airborne science research aircraft for a variety of geophysical research missions. The aircraft was extensively modified and instrumented for the role, including installation of a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar in an underbelly pod, a self-contained on-board DCAPS (Data Collection and Processing System), and the PAA (Platform Precision Autopilot) system that enables the aircraft to fly repeat passes over a target within a 15 foot diameter “tube” of the original flight path.

The twin-turbofan aircraft provides long-term capability for efficiently conducting airborne environmental science missions for NASA, other government agencies, academia, and private industry.