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OIB ATM sitrep 10/31/18

Posted on October 31, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

OIB successfully completed the “Smith-Pope-Kohler IS2” mission today, in mostly sunny conditions, however wind driven uplift clouds developed over the far southwest edge of today’s survey area causing just a few minutes of camera and

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/30/18 pm

Posted on October 30, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

NASA 817 carried the OIB aircrew and science teams on another long transit today, about 2500 miles (a little under 5 hours) each way. The OIB science low altitude flight line (at the end of

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/30/18 am

Posted on October 30, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

Following our hard down day yesterday, OIB is rested and ready to attempt the “Land Ice – Hamilton Line – Ronne Sector ” mission today, flying an arc near 88 degrees south, quite near the

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/28/18 am (morning landing)

Posted on October 28, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

OIB completed the “Mid-Weddell” mission, one of the most logistically difficult missions we’ve ever attempted, with an under-flight of the recently launched IceSat-2 satellite during an overnight DC8 flight in the eastern Weddell Sea, in

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/27/18 pm (evening take-off)

Posted on October 27, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

Replacement of the DC8 flight deck window is complete (thanks to the awesome AFRC DC8 aircraft team) and we’ll re-attempt an under-flight of the IS2 satellite after midnight on the sea ice “Mid-Weddell” mission. Take

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OIB sitrep 10/23/18

Posted on October 23, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

OIB was planning to attempt a night mission over sea ice to underfly an IceSat2 orbit tonight.   Unfortunately weather in the Weddell Sea deteriorated, and in addition, a regional trucker’s strike was blocking passage

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/22/18 pm

Posted on October 22, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

The NASA IceSat 2 (IS2) satellite is in orbit and taking science data following its Sept 15th launch. Today at 0847Z (about 8 hours before the DC8 arrived at today’s science site) IceSat 2 orbited

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/20/18 am

Posted on October 20, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

Another sunny warm and calm morning in Punta Arenas. OIB will attempt the land ice  “Foundation-Academy-IS2  B” mission today. Panoramic view of the Punta Arenas ramp this morning. The DC8 is out of frame to

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/19/18 pm

Posted on October 19, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

OIB successfully completed the Seelye* Loop mission today. The weather was variable (as usual for the large geographic region covered by today’s flight), with areas of clouds, clearer skies and areas of low level ice

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OIB ATM sitrep 10/18/18 pm

Posted on October 18, 2018July 27, 2019 by rob

Another very successful OIB day with the completion of the “Recovery-IS2” land ice mission. Once again, the DC8 encountered perfect weather in eastern Antarctica and all OIB instrumentation worked well with complete data collection over

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