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NASA Launches Five Houston Research Flights, Mapping Air, Coast

6/2/2026

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NASA conducts five research flights over Houston June 3-13, 2026, from Ellington Field.
The missions will fly patterns over Houston and Gulf coast while NOAA’s WP-3D Orion hurricane-hunter operates as low as 1,000 feet.
NASA’s Gulfstream V, C-20A, III and King Air B200 will carry two lidars, a synthetic-aperture radar, an imaging spectrometer and two spectrometers to map gases, particles and coastal changes, can be tracked on NASA’s Airborne Science Program Tracker website.

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NASA conducts five research flights over Houston June 3-13, 2026, from Ellington Field.
The missions will fly patterns over Houston and Gulf coast while NOAA’s WP-3D Orion hurricane-hunter operates as low as 1,000 feet.
NASA’s Gulfstream V, C-20A, III and King Air B200 will carry two lidars, a synthetic-aperture radar, an imaging spectrometer and two spectrometers to map gases, particles and coastal changes, can be tracked on NASA’s Airborne Science Program Tracker website.