NASA/JPL/ESA/KCL - 2021 HyTES Joint Campaign Status
2021 HyTES Joint Campaign with NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), King College London, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) aboard a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) aircraft.
| Overall Status | |
|---|---|
| Description | Status |
| Instrument | Operating inside the aircraft |
| Current location | Kiruna, Sweden |
| Aircraft | Installation Completed |
| Data Processing | All scenes processed thus far |
Status Blog
17 Aug 2021
HyTES is performing its first science flight in Sweden
HyTES and the BAS aircraft meet up with the German and French science teams
16 Aug 2021
HyTES and the BAS aircraft arrive in Kiruna, Sweden for the next leg of the science campaign
30, 31 July 2021 and 1 Aug 2021
Cloudy and rainy morning with no flight scheduled for the next 3 days.
29 July 2021
JPL Engineer prepares to board aircraft. Science flights resume however due to low level clouds covering most of the target area the flight was postponed.
28 July 2021
No science flights due to low and high level clouds covering most of the United Kingdom. A P-51 aircraft is in the foreground image.
26,27 July 2021
No science flights due to low and high level clouds covering most of the United Kingdom. A Spitfire aircraft is in the foreground image.
23,24,25 July 2021
No science flight over the weekend due to the Duxford Airshow which featured many WWII aircraft including the B-17 and P-51.
22 July 2021
Science flights resume with new camera configuration file used to improve geolocation during data processing.
20 July 2021
Rain, thunder and lightning grounded all science flights for the day. The hanger lost power for one minute but the HyTES UPS system performed well.
19 July 2021
The first set of scenes have been processed. Click on "Order Data" tab to view scenes
JPL crew member disembarks aircraft after first science flight
16 July 2021
The campaign has been granted approval from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC). The HyTES instrument can proceed with Airborne Science flights starting Sunday, July 18th.
15 July 2021
First instrument calibration to validate the instrument's parameters. In the background is a World War II Spitfire aircraft.
10 July 2021
HyTES starts the cooling process.
9 July 2021
HyTES has been secured in the BAS aircraft.
6 July 2021
After, briefing from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Operations team the installation of HyTES has began on the BAS aircraft.
5 July 2021
HyTES Arrived in UK
30 June 2021
HyTES Departed JPL