Updated Mar 20, 2025

This is an experimental campaign map. We are looking to make this useful to the airborne community for planning and piggyback purposes. Click here to view full-screen. Please send any feedback or ideas to Susan Bell.

The campaign schedule table is available in JSON format here.

Non-NASA Platforms in salmon. Currently flying in green. Recently completed campaigns in blue.

Category column: N = NASA Aircraft, C = CAS, J = JPL mission, S = Stratospheric Balloon (Wallops), T = Transport, U = UAS, Bal - Balloon

Campaign Instrument Aircraft PI or POC Flight Dates Location Science/Tech Goals Sponsor SOFRS Category
C-FIRST Engineering C-FIRST B200 (N801NA) S. Gunapala Jan 13 and Feb 20, 2025 CONUS High dynamic range remote sensing fire detection; Precise locations of fires IIP 24B009 N
AVUELO AVIRIS-3 DA B200 (N53W) M. Eastwood Feb 5 - Mar 28, 2025 Panama & Costa Rica SBG science objectives; Airborne Validation Unified Experiment Land to Ocean SBG 25M023 C
Local UAVSAR UAVSAR-P C-20 (N802NA) Y. Lou Week Feb 20 to May Edwards Various science - earthquakes, landslides, snow ESD 24G017 N
GHG MIssions 1,2,3 AVIRIS-5 DA B200 (N53W) A. Thorpe 2025 - when instrument avail CONUS Spectral, radiometric, spatial, and uniformity cal NASA 25M003 C
EMIT Cal/Val AVIRIS-5 DA B200 (N53W) A. Thorpe 2025 - when instrument avail Western U.S., Permian Basin Locate, quantify methane emission targets EMIT 25M021 C
FireSense AVIRIS-3 DA B200 (N53W) M. Eastwood Mar 20 - Apr 22, 2025 Alabama, Florida Monitoring areas before, during and after prescribed burns SMD 25M006 C
MAIA Science AirMSPI-2 ER2 D. Diner Mar 31 - Apr 11, 2025 Edwards, CA Aerosols, MAIA support AITT 242014 N
A-SMLS Tests A-SMLS ER2 N. Livesey Mar 31 - Apr 11, 2025 Edwards, CA UTLS chemistry, NG MLS support AITT 242006 N
HIGS piggyback HIGS (High Altitude IR Sounder) Wallops Strat Balloon S. Krishnamoothy Apr 2025 Wanaka, NZ IR sounding in New Zealand N, Bal
GEMx AVIRIS-C and/or AVIRIS-5 ER-2 I. McCubbin Apr 15 - Sep 15, 2025 Western US Mineralogy mapping USGS 242006 N
SPARTA Zero-G SPARTA Zero-G R. Anderson Apr - May 2025 Florida In situ planetary surface properties Flt Ops C
ORCAA Biological sampling instruments Coastal helicopters S. Howell Jun 6, 2025 Juneau Icefield, AK P-STAR: Ocean Worlds Reconnaissance and Characterization of Astrobiologial Analogs SMD PSD n/a C
QUAKES-I Test QUAKES-I B200 (N801NA) A. Donnellan Summer 2025 SoCal Surface topology ESD 25B008 N
German Bi-static Experiment UAVSAR-L C-20 Y. Lou Summer 2025 Germany Develop benefits of bi-static SAR SMD ESD n/a N
GHG - AIRMAPS AVIRIS-5 DA B200 (N53W) A. Thorpe Summer 2025 OH, PA, MD GHGs GHG Center 25M003 C
MC2 MC2 LACoFD Helicopter K. Oudrhihi Mid 2025 San Gabriel Mts, CA Measure soil, vegetation moisture with passive L-band ESD, JPL n/a C
SMICES-IIP SMICES radar / radiometer TBD - likely P3 P. Kangaslahti Mid 2025 CONUS Sensing of ice clouds IIP n/a N
HyTES Eng. Flight HyTES KBA B. Eng Mid-June 2025 Western US Engineering fit, battery SMD C
NGC-II YTHP, JLH probe NGC Hawker P. Kangaslahti, R. Herman Mid 2025 Palmdale, CA Water vapor & temperature profiles DOE ARPA-E n/a J
NASA Glenn Project JLH probe Williams Jet R. Herman Mid 2025 Glenn Water vapor and temperature profiles NASA - AAVP n/a C
Sac - San Joaquin River Delta Exp. AVIRIS-3 DA B200 (N53W) M. Eastwood Aug - Sep 2025 CA Aquatic studies for the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta 25M017 C
Stratospheric Balloon Flt Mark-IV; WISTLS piggyback Wallops Strat Balloon A. Kleinboehl Aug - Sep 2025 Ft. Sumer, NM Stratospheric, UTLS chemical profiles – water vapor, piggyback - planetary Sci TRL instrument advancement SMD - N, Bal
HYMS Balloon Flight HAMMR-HD Strat balloon S. Brown Aug - Sep 2025 Arizona Next Gen Radiometer measurements 30+ days over CONUS NOAA n/a C, Bal
SWOT AirSWOT B200 (N801NA) R. Chao
PI: M. Simard
Fall 2025, Spring 2026 Miss Delta SWOT validation / DSI Radar piggyback SWOT N
India Phase 2B AVIRIS-3 ISRO NRSC B200 M. Eastwood Sep 2025 - Feb 2026 India Ecosystem and agriculture, coastal waters and coral, dust and black carbon on ice India O
PIRS Test PIRS B200 801 or DA A. Soibel Dec 2025 CONUS CO, CO2, humidity & temperature sounding FireTech n/a N
ASTHROS ASTHROS Stratospheric balloon J. Siles No earlier than Dec 2025 APL observatory I&T, Int: Palestine MRR; Dep: Antarctica Do stars accelerate or decelerate the formation of new stars in their galaxy NASA N
NISAR S.A. Cal/Val UAVSAR-L C-20 Y. Lou Jan 2026 Peru NISAR validation NISAR N
CARBO-Air Test CARBO-A B200 801 G. Sellar Jun 2026 CONUS Quantify methane and CO2 emissions ESTO n/a TBD
ASCENT Costa Rica (STV) QUAKES-I UAVSAR TBD A. Donnellan Jan - Feb 2026 Costa Rica, Panama surface topography, vegetation DSI 26M006 N, C
ASCENT East Coast (STV) QUAKES-I UAVSAR TBD A. Donnellan Summer 2026 East Coast surface topography, vegetation DSI 26M005 N, C
UAVSAR simplified L-band (nadir) TBD TBD Y. Lou 2026 Palmdale
RAID Test Flt RAID TBD D. Arumugam Nov 2026 TBD Rydberg Airborne Inst. Demo.: First Rydberg receiver. SoOP. Soil moisture and STV IIP n/a
ASCENT West Coast (STV) QUAKES-I UAVSAR TBD A. Donnellan Summer 2027 West Coast, Alaska surface topography, vegetation DSI 27M004 N, C
NIMBUS Test Flt NIMBUS TBD R. Rodriquez Monje Feb 2028 TBD Next Gen Intelligent Meteorological Radar with Built-in Understanding of Scenery (Ka, W, G) – ACCP, PBL IIP n/a