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Tehachapi Mountains Backdrop for SBRDC/ECANS Flight
Tehachapi Mountains Backdrop for SBRDC/ECANS Flight

The jagged ridges of Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains formed the backdrop to NASA’s brightly-colored NF-15B testbed aircraft during a research…

Antennas on SBRDC/ECANS Project Aircraft
Antennas on SBRDC/ECANS Project Aircraft

Antennas used for the Space-Based Range Demonstration and Certification (SBRDC) project protruded from the top of NASA’s NF-15B testbed during…

F-15B Antenna Radiation Pattern Tests
F-15B Antenna Radiation Pattern Tests

NASA’s highly modified NF-15B research aircraft was hoisted high in the Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base for…

F-15B Banks During SBRDC/ECANS Flight
F-15B Banks During SBRDC/ECANS Flight

Two small Range Safety System antennas were located just behind the engine inlets of NASA’s NF-15B research aircraft as it…

F-15B: Range Safety and Range User System Antennas
F-15B: Range Safety and Range User System Antennas

New range safety and range user system antennas for the ECANS project can be seen just behind and to the…

F-15B: Airborne Tests of Improved Space-Based Communications
F-15B: Airborne Tests of Improved Space-Based Communications

NASA’s highly modified NF-15B research aircraft cruised over Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains near Lake Isabella during a research mission.

SBRDC: State-of-the-Art Space-Based Communication Links
SBRDC: State-of-the-Art Space-Based Communication Links

Range safety and phased-array range user system antennas validated in the ECANS project can be seen just behind the cockpit…

Autonomous Modular Scanner Used Over Lake Isabella
Autonomous Modular Scanner Used Over Lake Isabella

This 3-D illustration shows the real-time, mid-mission flight track of NASA’s Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft over Southern California’s Lake Isabella…

Post-Fire Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Collected by Ikhana
Post-Fire Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Collected by Ikhana

NASA’s Autonomous Modular Scanner, carried in a pod under the wing of the Agency’s remotely piloted Predator B, Ikhana, collected…

F-104, T-38, and F-18 in Formation Flight
F-104, T-38, and F-18 in Formation Flight

Three types of aircraft used as chase aircraft in support of research flights at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…