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INSPYRE
Dates: August - September, 2026
Location: Western USA / Canada
Principal Investigators: Peterson (NRL) / Lareau (UNR) / Kalashnikova (JPL)
Aircraft: NASA 806 ER-2 (Armstrong Flight Research Center)
Additional Sensors: AirHARP-2/BBR/CPL/CRS/EXRAD/iSTORM/LIP/Mavo Edge/MVIS
Objective: The INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) Science Team will constrain the role of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) in the earth system and characterize their physical links to extreme wildfire behavior.
Increasing wildfire size and intensity will amplify pyroCb-driven smoke injection into the stratosphere and induce measurable changes to Earth's radiative balance.

  
Processing Information
Flights Processed: 2
Total Flight Tracks: 24
Total Scanlines: 92,501
Status: Campaign In Progress
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INSPYRE Missions
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15 July 2026
Flight: 26-673-00 		16 July 2026
Flight: 26-674-00
Satellite Underpasses
Satellite Date Time (UTC) Flight: Track
PACE 07/16/2026 20:00 26-674-00: 10
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Flight: 26-673-00
Ventura / Oxnard, CA
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