ESPO Missions
ARCTAS
Spring & Summer 2008
Greenland, Fairbanks, AK and Canada
GasEx
Winter - Spring 2008
Punta Arenas, Chile and Montevideo, Uruguay
TC4
Summer 2007
San Jose, Costa Rica
CC-VEx
July - August, 2006
Robins AFB, Warner Robins, GA
INTEX-B
Spring 2006
Houston - TX, Honolulu - HI and Anchorage - AK
CR-AVE
Winter 2006
San Jose, CR
AVE Houston 2
Summer 2005
Houston, TX
Polar AVE
Winter 2005
Portsmouth, NH
AVE Houston
Fall 2004
Houston, TX
INTEX-NA
Summer 2004
North America
SOLVE II
Winter 2003
Kiruna, Sweden
CRYSTAL FACE
Summer 2002
Key West, Florida
CAMEX 4
Summer - Fall 2001
NAS Jacksonville, NS Mayport, & Key West, Florida
ERAST
Spring 2000
Dryden Flight Research Center / El Mirage, California
SOLVE
FAll 1999 and Spring 2000
Kiruna, Sweden
SAFARI
Summer - Fall, 2000
Pietersburg, South Africa
TRMM Kwajalein Validation Experiment
Summer - Fall 1999
Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
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TRMM Brazil Validation Experiment
Winter 1999
Brasillia, Ji Parana, & Porto Velho, Brazil
CAMEX 3
Summer - Fall 1998
Patrick AFB, Florida
TEFLUN
Spring 1998
Ft. Walton Beach, Florida
SONEX
Fall 1997
Bangor, Maine / Shannon, Ireland / Azores, Portugal
POLARIS
Spring and Fall 1997
Fairbanks, Alaska
SUCCESS
Spring 1996
Salina, Kansas
TOTE/VOTE
STRAT
Spring 1995 and Winter 1996
NAS Barber's Point, Hawaii
ASHOE/MAESA
Spring and Fall 1994
Christchurch, New Zealand
SPADE
1993
NASA Ames Research Center
AASE2
Summer 1991 and Spring 1992
Bangor, Maine
AASE
Winter 1989
Stavangar, Norway
AAOE
Summer - Fall 1987
Punta Arenas, Chile
STEP
Winter 1987
Darwin, Australia
ESPO News
ARCTAS - Spring deployment successfully concluded; We are looking forward to the summer deployment in Cold Lake, Canada.
Discovery.com ARCTAS blog
ESPO supports joint NOAA/NASA/NSF science mission GasEx.
TC4 Deployment in Costa Rica successfully concluded on August 12th. DC-8, ER-2 and WB-57 have flown a total of 25 flights. 292 weather balloons were launched from Galapagos, Panama and Costa Rica. DC-8 launched 93 dropsondes.