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"Defiance and creativity go hand in hand."
Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. (Mission: Climate Research )

The Airborne Science Program uses aircraft-based platforms to test, refine and calibrate instruments and algorithms ultimately intended for space-based operations.

At the same time, they can make high-resolution measurements that are valuable either on their own or coupled to satellite observations to improve understanding of global systems.




