Suggested Searches

1 min read

Global Hawk 872

The headshot image of Patrick A. Black

Patrick A. Black

Sep 05, 2014
Article
A view of a beige room full of computer monitors, manned by four men, is seen through a window. Beige window bars run top-to-bottom, outlining the center third of the photo. In the center photo are two of the men conversing, the one on the left is in a tan shirt and the man on the right is in a gray polo. In the left third, a man in a blue jumpsuit sits on the right next to another man in a tan shirt. Both of them are watching the men in the center third.
Credits: NASA Wallops

Pilots prepare for the take-off of NASA Global Hawk 872 at 7:11 a.m. EDT, September 5, from the Wallops Flight Facility. Operating from the Global Hawk Operations Center East (GHOCE) at Wallops, the pilots are controlling the unmanned aircraft as it flies over a tropical weather system just to the south of the Cape Verdes Isles in the Atlantic Ocean.  During the fourth science flight of the 2014 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission, the instruments on the aircraft will gather data and relay it back to the scientists in the GHOCE.  The plane is expected to return to Wallops the morning of September 6.

More information on HS3 is available at www.nasa.gov/hs3