Long-Time Collaborators on CPEX Mission
Taking a Break from Weather Forecasting, CPEX
A dropsonde chute is positioned in the aft portion of the DC-8 cabin.
View of Tropical Storm Cindy from the DC-8 during a June 21 science flight. The storm later made landfall in…
Scientists from University of New Mexico, University of Utah, and various NASA centers meet at the CPEX operations center to…
A probe for the MASC (Microwave Atmospheric Sounder for Cubesats) instrument is mounted on the DC-8’s left wing.
DC-8 Navigator Greg Pugh plans for the June 10 and 11 Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) science flights.
The DC-8 mission board is the hub for all communication and power needs of the flying laboratory.
The DAWN instrument, standing for Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar, measures the horizontal wind profile below the plane. It was developed…
