Updated June 17, 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

Campaign Instrument Aircraft PI or POC Flight Dates Location Science/Tech Goals Sponsor SOFRS Category
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 CH4 emission targets EMIT 25M021 C
GEMx AVIRIS-C and/or AVIRIS-5 ER-2 I. McCubbin Apr 28 - Sep 15, 2025 Western US Mineralogy mapping USGS 242006 N
ORCAA Biological sampling instruments Coastal helicopters S. Howell Jun 1-26, 2025 Juneau Icefield, AK P-STAR: Ocean Worlds Reconnaissance and Characterization of Astrobiologial Analogs SMD PSD n/a C
MAGEQ AVIRIS-3 DA B200 (N53W) A. Thorpe Jun - Aug 2025 Mid-Atlantic states Mid-Atlantic Gas Emissions Quantification SMD 25M003 C
MC2 MC2 LACoFD Helicopter K. Oudrhihi Jun - Jul 2025 San Gabriel Mts, CA Measure soil, vegetation moisture with passive L-band ESD, JPL n/a C
FireSense - Round 2 AVIRIS-3 DA B200 (N53W) M. Eastwood Jul - Fall 2025 Western US Monitoring active wildfires SMD 25M006 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
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
NASA Glenn Project JLH probe Williams Jet R. Herman Oct 2025 Glenn Water vapor NASA - AAVP n/a C
SPARTA Zero-G SPARTA Zero-G R. Anderson Nov 2025 earliest Florida In situ planetary surface properties Flt Ops C
HyTES-1 Eng. Flight HyTES Navy Postgrad B. Eng Late 2025 SoCal Engineering fit, battery SMD C
NGC-II YTHP, JLH probe NGC Hawker P. Kangaslahti, R. Herman Early FY26 Palmdale, CA Water vapor & temperature profiles DOE ARPA-E n/a J
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
SMICES-IIP SMICES radar / radiometer TBD - likely P3 P. Kangaslahti Piggyback FY26 CONUS Sensing of ice clouds IIP n/a N
NISAR S.A. Cal/Val UAVSAR-L C-20 Y. Lou Jan 2026 Peru NISAR validation NISAR N
India Phase 2B AVIRIS-3 ISRO NRSC B200 M. Eastwood Feb 2026 India Ecosystem and agriculture, coastal waters and coral, dust and black carbon on ice India O
German Bi-static Experiment UAVSAR-L C-20 Y. Lou 2026 Germany Develop benefits of bi-static SAR SMD ESD n/a N
SWOT AirSWOT B200 (N801NA) R. Chao
PI: M. Simard
Spring 2026 Miss Delta SWOT validation / DSI Radar piggyback SWOT N
QUAKES-I Test QUAKES-I B200 (N801NA) S. Bell TBD, Summer 2026 SoCal Surface topology ESD 25B008 N
ASCENT (STV) QUAKES-I UAVSAR TBD A. Donnellan Summer 2026 West Coast surface topography, vegetation DSI 27M004 N, C
CARBO-Air Test CARBO-A B200 801 G. Sellar Jun 2026 CONUS Quantify methane and CO2 emissions ESTO n/a TBD
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