IceBridge Preparations Continue – Operation IceBridge

By George Hale, IceBridge Science Outreach Coordinator, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The work of installing IceBridge’s science instruments on the NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory continued this week. People from the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas (CReSIS) and from Sander Geophysics Limited (SGL) spent the week installing the aircraft’s various radar instruments and the AirGrav gravimeter.

With the last of the instruments installed and operational, IceBridge is now ready to start test flights next week. Monday afternoon’s schedule includes pilot proficiency flights and on Tuesday and Wednesday IceBridge will carry out instrument check flights.

University of Kansas Fernando Rodriguez-Morales & Bryan Townley work the MCoRDS Radar instrument installation

University of Kansas FernandoRodriguez-Morales and Bryan Townley install the MCoRDS Radar instrument

SGL’s Stefan Elieff and Sean O’Rourke finish installing the gravimeter instrument

University of Kansas’ Ben Panzer and NASA Tech Donny Bailes work on the KU and Snow Radar instruments antennas in the DC-8 wing root area

NASA Techs Kevin Mount and TerranceDilworth inspect instrument racks on the DC-8

NASA DC-8 Techs weigh the aircraft withthe OIB instruments on board

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