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High and Dry: Trading Water Vapor, Fuel and Observing Time for SOFIAThe Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is NASA's next generation airborne astronomical observatory. The facility consists of a 747-SP modified to accommodate a 2.5 meter telescope. SOFIA is expected to fly an average of 140 science flights per year over it's 20 year lifetime, and will commence operations in early 2005. The SOFIA telescope is mounted aft of the wings on the port side of the aircraft and is articulated through a range of 20 deg to 60 deg of elevation. A significant problem in future SOFIA operations is that of scheduling Facility Instrument (E) flights in support of the SOFIA General Investigator (GI) program. GIs are expected to propose small numbers of observations, and many observations must be grouped together to make up single flights. Approximately 70 GI flight per year are expected, with 5-15 observations per flight.
Document ID
20050184160
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Frank, Jeremy
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Kurklu, Elif
(QSS Group, Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 21, 2005
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: July 1, 2005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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