HS3: Global Hawks Soar into Storms

  • Released Thursday, May 29th, 2014
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:50PM
  • ID: 11559

During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of hurricanes and tropical storms with two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flying over storms and two new space-based missions.

NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row. HS3 is a collaborative effort that brings together several NASA centers with federal and university partners to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. The flights from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia take place between Aug. 26 and Sept. 29 during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

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  • HS3 2014 Kickoff (ID: 2014046)
    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 4:00AM