Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air that they’re travelling through – these are not the usual experiences for an undergraduate student. For the 2023 participants in NASA’s SARP East program – short for Student Airborne Research Program – it was part of a summer they won't forget.
SARP-E
The test flight today showed no issues with the SLAP instrument or install, and we do not need to conduct additional flights or testing before the SARP-E campaign beginning in June. Today, we flew a set of raster (“mow the lawn” or MTL) lines over the fields in the vicinity of the VCU Rice Rivers center, as well as lines up and down the James River to and from the target area.
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Albert Wu on 05/10/23