NASA CPEX-AW Aircraft Mission Reports

Eight days of mission reports from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the CPEX-AW field campaign. These documents detail daily objectives, flight times, and instrument performance for the joint NASA-ESA campaign to validate the ADM-Aeolus wind Lidar satellite. Data covers the period from August 20 to August 27, 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyzing daily flight objectives and operational constraints for airborne science campaigns.
• Correlating instrument performance logs with corresponding scientific data products.
• Studying the planning and execution of post-launch satellite validation activities for the Aeolus mission.

Strengths

• Provides a precise 8-day operational log from a major NASA-ESA joint field campaign.
• Focuses on the calibration of the specific ADM-Aeolus satellite, a key Earth observation mission.

Limitations

• Core descriptive metadata (row count, column names, file size) is consistently unavailable across all platforms.
• Data is provided in unstructured document formats (Word, PDF, HTML), limiting machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Recorded during NASA DC-8 aircraft flights for the Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Winds (CPEX-AW) campaign.

Time Range

2021-08 20 to 2021-08-27

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:08:16.584928

Geography

Campaign based in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; specific flight paths not detailed.