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This data, along with sophisticated models of ocean circulation and debris characteristics, do account for the primary features of plastic and marine debris accumulation and distribution. Nasa has successfully completed the first science flight of the global hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the pacific ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled for this months global hawk pacific, or glopac, mission to study. Up close and personal with nasas global hawk drones at edwards. Able to fly at high altitudes for greater than 30 hours, global hawk is designed to gather nearrealtime, highresolution imagery of large areas of land. Nasa operates the giant northrop grumman global hawk drone to collect. Overview of the nasajpl uavsar and porting to the global. The ikhana a modified predator is also flown this way. Nasa operates the global hawk with payloads up to 2000 lb and at altitudes of. Nominally these aircraft are flown on missions of up to 24hours during which they travel approximately 8,500nauticalmiles. The global hawk dropsonde system was first deployed scientifically during the noaaled winter storms and pacific atmospheric rivers wispar experiment in 2011 and then successfully deployed from 20122014 during the nasa hurricane and severe storm sentinel hs3 experiment. Two exusaf global hawk demonstrators were transferred to nasas. In spot collection mode the coverage is 1,900 spots a day with spot size 2km.