The DC-8 is fully integrated and all that remains is the loading of mission equipment on the 757 that will be serving as the excess-cargo plane.  Teams needing to transport excess mission equipment must now have everything on the floor of the hangar and ready to be loaded.

The DC-8 navigator will now be able to use internet-based weather forecasting for planning science flights over Antarctica in real-time.

An OIB mission schedule can be viewed at the NASA ESPO website here.

Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) integrated with the DC-8.

An alignment mirror to calibrate the Airborne Topopgrahic Mapper (ATM) is placed beneath the Nadir port on the DC-8.

Engineer Earl Frederick adjusts an alignment mirror to calibrate the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM).

Ben Panzer (left) of the University of Kansas KU Ultra Wide Band-Snow Radar team listens as Earl Frederick (right) describes calibration of the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM).

Ben Panzer, seated, and Chris Allen (floor) installing the KU snow radar.

Photos by Jane Peterson, NSERC

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Exclusive video taken by onboard cameras on the DC-8 capture the flight over Lake Athabasca to intercept fire plumes southeast of the lake in northeast Saskatchewan.  These videos were taken during the ARCTAS mission.  This camera will also be used during the OIB mission and NSERC will be posting these videos on this blog.

Videos by NSERC