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The ER-2 aircraft was able to fly into thunderstorms to make observations that could help scientists better predict when storms could turn severe.

The ER-2 aircraft was able to fly into thunderstorms to make observations that could help scientists better predict when storms could turn severe.

The ER-2 aircraft was able to fly into thunderstorms to make observations that could help scientists better predict when storms could turn severe.

NASA's ER-2 aircraft, as part of the ALOFT project, investigated lightning and related energy fields in the atmosphere in July 2023. This research aims to deepen our understanding of gamma-ray flashes in thunderclouds and will influence future space-based lightning mapping technologies. Throughou

Activities at SpaceX's Boca Chica test site suggest Starship's orbital flight is days away—possibly targeting April 10 or 11.

Dr. Youssef Wehbe is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Climate and Water Program at the Middle East Institute. His areas of expertise include water resource management, coupled land-atmosphere modeling, cloud microphysics, and weather modification technology. His ongoing research addresses next-generation water resource monitoring by integrating satellite and radar remote sensing, hydro-meteorological modeling, and relevant applications of AI/machine learning tools.

While we rarely cover serving military aircraft here at Vintage Aviation News, there are occasional exceptions to this rule. Indeed, how could we resist featuring one of NASA's most fascinating aircraft, the Lockheed ER-2 Dragon Lady, when one of them just happened to visit our home field near Atlanta, Georgia? NASA employs two examples of the ER-2, a variant of the legendary U-2 spy plane, in upper atmosphere research programs. Last week, ER-2 NASA 806 (formerly TR-1A 80-1063 of the US A...

Dr. Youssef Wehbe is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Climate and Water Program at the Middle East Institute. His areas of expertise include water resource management, coupled land-atmosphere modeling, cloud microphysics, and weather modification technology. His ongoing research addresses next-generation water resource monitoring by integrating satellite and radar remote sensing, hydro-meteorological modeling, and relevant applications of AI/machine learning tools.

PENDLETON — Born 10 weeks premature in Eugene, Kristen Gregg has been thriving ever since. A junior at Montana State University in Bozeman, the 2018 Pendleton High School graduate is majoring in chemistry. Gregg was recently notified that she’s one of 28 students from across the country to be chosen for the 13th annual NASA Student Airborne Science Program (SARP). Coordinated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the nine-week internship is designed to provide students...

Research flight schedule that is the most consistently reliable airborne science program at any nasa facility. and that between rent, capital improvements and science flying, nasa and the taxpayers are $2 million per year to the good from our tenancy at moffet. nonetheless, the google executives no longer get the cheap fuel after critics turned up the heat on the partnership. well, wolf, nasa also defended itself saying the money they get from private partners helps defray the cost of the airfie...