NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mid day update

Friday 8-20-2021 No hard down day, instrument access, aircraft work, science meeting at 1400
Saturday 8-21-2021 Hard Down Day
Sunday 8-22-2021 Transit prep day
Monday 8-23-2021 ER-2 Transit to AFRC

The shipping and the de-integration timeline does not change.
As soon as is possible start packing your equipment and stage it on the hangar floor.

8-27-2021 Truck loading and transit to Palmdale
8-30-2021 Start of de-integration in Palmdale (end Friday 9-3-2021)

Flight Day RF11

0400 Instruments hands on
0500 Flight Brief
0600 Instrument hands off
0800 Take off (~6.5h flight)

Looking Ahead
These are all tentative
08-20-21 Hard Down
08-21-21 Instrument Day
08-22-21 Flight Day (RF12)

Tuesday the ER-2 (DCOTSS) and the WB-57 (ACCLIP) had a coordinated flight.

Instrument Access Day

0700 Hangar Access
0800 – 1600 ER-2 Crew Support
0800 FFP Brief
0930 All-hands

Looking Ahead
These are all tentative
08-19-21 Flight Day (RF11) opportunity
08-20-21 Hard Down
08-21-21 Instrument Day
08-22-21 Flight Day (RF12)

RF10 Flight Day

0500 FFP meeting
0600 Crew show / Hands On
0700 Crew brief
0800 Hands-off
1000 Take-off
1700 Landing (Approximate)
1900 Ground crew end crew duty day

Looking Ahead

08-20-21 Next science flight opportunity

No flight/Instrument access day

0700 Hangar/Lab access
0800-1600 ER-2 support
0800 FFP meeting

Looking Ahead

08-17-21 Science Flight Opportunity (or 08-18-21)
08-20-21 Science Flight Opportunity (could be only one instrument day between flights)

Hard Down Day

0800 Hangar/lab open
1000 FFP meeting

Looking ahead

08-16-21 Instrument access day with ER-2 support
08-17-21 Science Flight Opportunity

If you are beginning to think about shipping your equipment from Palmdale to home, and have questions, email sommer.nicholas@nasa.gov . Quincy Allison and Michael Schroeder will be in Palmdale.

RF09 Flight Day

0300 FFP meeting
0300 Crew show / Hands On
0400 Crew brief
0500 Hands-off
0700 Take-off
1400 Landing (Approximate)
1600 Ground crew end crew duty day

Looking Ahead

08-15-21 Hard down day
08-16-21 Instrument access day with ER-2 support
08-17-21 Science Flight Opportunity with WB

If you are beginning to think about shipping your equipment from Palmdale to home, and have questions, email sommer.nicholas@nasa.gov . Quincy Allison and Michael Schroeder will be in Palmdale.