Sciences and Exploration Directorate

GOES-16 Field Campaign

Class:

Flight Project

Status:

Past

Organizations:

Launch Date:

March 2017

WEBSITE:

EPO

The 2017 NOAA-sponsored ER-2 aircraft mission flew the R&D-supported Cloud Radar System, ER-2 X-Band Radar, GEO-CAPE Airborne Simulator, and the Cloud Physics Lidar. The suite of instruments was validating GOES-R, the next generation of geostationary weather satellites.

Key Staff
    Photo of NASA's ER-2 taking off from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center

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