May 21 POD
Date:
Sat, 05/21/2011
The plan for today is to fly a land surface mission following the 19 UTC Aqua/AMSU (marginal) overpass with the ER-2. Nominal take off time will be a 19 UTC launch. Weather at Offut may be marginal for a launch at this time, but the mission science requests that more than a 1 hour delay dictates a mission scrub.
UND will be down today to install the CIP probe which has arrived for installation.
Tomorrow will be a hard down day due to no weather in OK or CO, as well as to give time for the UND to finish CIP probe installation.
Monday-Wednesday look to present a complex weather pattern with targets in CO and OK. Further decisions on possible scenarios will be discussed during tomorrow's briefing.
Steve R./Larry C./Steve N.
