Airborne Campaign Schedule
Updated Nov 5, 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.
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
| Campaign | Instrument | Aircraft | PI or POC | Flight Dates | Location | Science/Tech Goals | Sponsor | SOFRS | Category |
| Local UAVSAR science flights | UAVSAR | C-20 | Y. Lou | Sep-Oct 2025 | California | Landslides, fault creep | SMD | 25G021 25G027 | N |
| sUAS Flights | Cameras, navigation sensors | sUAS | R. Brockers | all year | near JPL, Pasadena | Support of earth-planetary science and sUAS TRL advancement | Various | n/a | U |
| GHG, EMIT, Carbon Mapper | AVIRIS-3 | DA B200 (N53W) | A. Thorpe | 2025 - when instrument avail | CONUS | Spectral, radiometric, spatial, and uniformity cal | NASA | 25M004, 25M005, 25M014, 25M021 | C |
| FireSense - Round 2 | AVIRIS-3 | DA B200 (N53W) | M. Eastwood | Aug - Dec 2025 | Western US | Monitoring active wildfires | SMD | 25M006 | C |
| C-FIRST Eng flts | C-FIRST | B200 (801) | A. Soibel | After govt shutdown | SoCal | Fire sensing | ESTO | 24B009 25B009 | N |
| MAIA Science | AirMSPI-2 | ER-2 806 | D. Diner | After govt shutdown | Palmdale | Aerosols, MAIA support | MAIA | 242014 | N |
| QUAKES Test Flt | QUAKES-I | B200 (801) | S. Bell | After govt shutdown | SoCal | Surface topology test instrument incl. window | ESD | 25B008 | N |
| MC2 | MC2 | B200 (801) | K. Oudrhihi | Nov - Dec 2025 | San Gabriel Mts, CA | Measure soil, vegetation moisture with passive L-band | ESD, JPL | n/a | C |
| NURTURE | CloudCube | LaRC GIII | R. Rodriguez Monje | Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 | Goose Bay, Labrador Canada | North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment | NASA | 26G002 | N |
| ASTHROS | ASTHROS | Stratospheric balloon | J. Siles | No earlier than Dec 2025 | Palestine, then deploy Antarctica | Do stars accelerate or decelerate the formation of new stars in their galaxy | NASA | N | |
| SMICES-IIP | SMICES radar / radiometer | P-3 | P. Kangaslahti | Piggyback FY26 | CONUS | Sensing of ice clouds | IIP | n/a | N |
| NISAR S.A. Cal/Val | UAVSAR-L | C-20 | Y. Lou | Feb or Mar 2026 | Peru | NISAR validation | NISAR | N | |
| CRISTAL Support | HAMMR-HD, U Kansas Snow Radar, MASS Lidar, Scripps | KBA or AirTEC | M. Williamson | Mid-Mar 2026 | Cambridge Bay, Canada | Support CRISTAL mission (snow depth, ice topology) | CRISTAL by way of NASA | n/a | C |
| HyMS Balloon Flight | HAMMR-HD SMICES horn | WorldView Strat balloon | S. Brown | Apr 2026 | Arizona | Next Gen Radiometer measurements 30+ days over CONUS | NOAA | n/a | C, Bal |
| Biomass mission (ESA) | UAVSAR | C-20 | Y. Lou | Apr-May 2026 | S. America | Biomass cal/val | ESA | N | |
| HyTES-1 Eng. Flight | HyTES-1 | LaRC GIII | B. Eng | Spring 2026 | TBD | Engineering fit | SMD | C | |
| SWOT | AirSWOT | B200 (N801NA) | R. Chao PI: M. Simard |
Spring 2026 | Miss Delta | SWOT validation / DSI Radar piggyback | SWOT | N | |
| German Bi-static Experiment | UAVSAR-L | C-20 | Y. Lou | 2026 | Germany | Develop benefits of bi-static SAR | SMD ESD | not yet | N |
| Northrup Grumman contrails | YTHP, JLH probe | NGC Hawker | R. Herman, P. Kangaslahti | Mid 2026 | Palmdale, CA | Engine performance, turbulence via fast water vapor measurements | NASA AAVP | n/a | C |
| CARBO-Air Test | CARBO-A | B200 801 | G. Sellar | Jun 2026 | CONUS | Quantify methane and CO2 emissions | ESTO | n/a | TBD |
| ASCENT (STV) | QUAKES-I UAVSAR | JSC GV, AFRC C-20 | A. Donnellan | June 2026 | West Coast | surface topography, vegetation | DSI | 265002 | N, C |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| TREX | UAVSAR | C-20 | Y. Lou | Piggyback, multi-static timing sync |
