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NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers – NASA

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NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers – NASA

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning. This unique data also has value beyond the Earth as a celestial roadmap for using the same instrumentation to monitor radiation levels for travelers entering … Read more

NASA Measures Moonlight to Improve Earth Observations – NASA

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NASA Measures Moonlight to Improve Earth Observations – NASA

Flying high above the clouds and moon-gazing may sound like a scene from a timeless romance, but NASA did just that in the name of Earth science research. In March 2025 pilots took the agency’s ER-2 science aircraft on a series of night flights over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the … Read more

NASA Supports Wildland Fire Technology Demonstration – NASA

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NASA Supports Wildland Fire Technology Demonstration – NASA

Advancements in NASA’s airborne technology have made it possible to gather localized wind data and assess its impacts on smoke and fire behavior. This information could improve wildland fire decision making and enable operational agencies to better allocate firefighters and resources. A small team from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is demonstrating … Read more

NASA Uses New Technology to Understand California Wildfires – NASA

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NASA Uses New Technology to Understand California Wildfires – NASA

The January wildfires in California devastated local habitats and communities. In an effort to better understand wildfire behavior, NASA scientists and engineers tried to learn from the events by testing new technology. The new instrument, the Compact Fire Infrared Radiance Spectral Tracker (c-FIRST), was tested when NASA’s B200 King Air aircraft flew over the wildfires … Read more

NASA Explores Earth Science with New Navigational System – NASA

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NASA Explores Earth Science with New Navigational System – NASA

NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while flying at high speeds up to 500 mph. The instrument is Soxnav, the culmination of more than 30 years of development of aircraft navigation systems. NASA’s G-IV aircraft flew its first mission to test this … Read more

Here’s why private flights are taking off in India like never before

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Here’s why private flights are taking off in India like never before

Few years ago, Captain Vinod flew to Punjab for an unusual assignment — he was ferrying a couple from their wedding venue on a helicopter. “This was the vidaai (a bride’s farewell from her paternal home) which would earlier happen in a doli (palanquin) and then came cars. Now, people are hiring private jets and … Read more