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Aircraft Status

Preparing For Flight Next flight: 02/10/2023 (C358)

About the Upgrade

Scientific instruments

The Mid-Life Upgrade will see a number of new instruments fitted to the aircraft as well as upgrades to existing ones, and the facility’s scientific measurement capabilities will improve significantly. Explore the instruments being developed using the filters below. New projects will be added as they complete the approval process.

Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) upgrade

Universal InfraRed Airborne Spectrometer (UNIRAS)

Laser-based Observer of Key Inorganics (LOKI)

Aerosol Lidar

Doppler Wind Lidar

Aerosol Inlets

Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry – Next Generation (PALMS-NG)

Bioaerosol Dust Spectrometer

Fluorescence Assay by Supersonic Gas Expansion (FAGE-HOx)

Multi Reagent Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (Mr CIMS)

Inter-band Cascade Laser – Greenhouse Gases (ICL-GHG)

Next Generation Optical Array Probes (OAPs)

Ice Microphysics measurement instrument suite

Trace Halogenated Organics archiver (THOr)

Infrastructure Projects

Learn more about the MLU’s infrastructure projects.