Video from the Global Hawk
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 9/25/2014, 7:50 pm
I wish they had video of Edouard. You can't really tell much from this:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-hs3-mission-time-lapse-highlights-cameras-over-tropical-systems/

Last Global Hawk mission looks to be Saturday.

"Overview:  AV-6 Science Flight #10 is planned for 0730 on Saturday with a 25 hour duration. It will follow the same track as flight #9 and will drop 62 sondes.

Options for AV-6 transiting to AFRC are Monday or Tuesday."

https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/daily-schedule

Here was mission 9's track:



Then its back to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

That will conclude the multiple year HS3 mission. However, the Global Hawks seem likely to return next year for another multiple year mission, this time with NOAA as the lead:
http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/10742/New-mission-for-the-Global-Hawk-.aspx

That looks to be it for aerial drones this year. I was reading the following from a site that has seemed true:

"HS3's biggest problem was a good one to have, at least for those people on the ground: Not enough hurricanes. The flying years of HS3 were not busy hurricane seasons, as it turned out, enough so that Braun [HS3 Principal Investigator Robert Braun] joked that HS3 seemed to be a hurricane deterrent."

From: http://www.auvsi.org/892014/1192014HS3
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