EPIC Daily Operations Summary

Date of report(UTC): 2001/09/29 12:53
Author of report: Gus Emmanuel
Submitted at: 20010929:13:04
The C-130 flies an ITCZ mission today. The P-3 developed a problem in engine #2, aborted yesterday's mission and proceeded to Corpus Christy, Texas for repairs. Current estimate for return to Huatulco is late Sunday or Monday. Note: Anjuli Bamzai, NSF, flies on the C-130 today.

MISSION PLANS:

PRIMARY MISSION:


SECONDARY MISSION:


TAKE OFF / LANDING TIMES:
 Plane Take-off Times(UTC) Landing Times(UTC)
NSF C-130   1430   2230-expected
NOAA P-3    

Pre-flight briefing times(UTC):
Update times(UTC):

AIRBORNE MISSION SCIENTIST NAMES:
NSF C-130 : Dave Raymond
NOAA P-3 :


SHIP OPERATIONS:
Normal ops for the Ron Brown

OTHER SPECIAL OPERATIONS:
Aerosonde operations from San Cristobal, Galapagos have yet to start--possibly middle to late next week.