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  Project Timeline

The HIAPER project timeline listed by year, as of August 13, 2003 (updates occur periodically to reflect the current schedule).

Major events and milestones are shown in red font.

Select a year:   2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005

 
2001 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December 2001: Contract award to Gulfstream
2002 January
February 2002: First IPT Meeting
March 2002: Second IPT Meeting
April
May
June 2002: Green aircraft rolls off production line and COA issued; aircraft transferred to Lockheed Martin; Third IPT Meeting
July
August
September 2002: Systems Requirements Conference; start of Lockheed martin engineering design
October
November 2002: NSF-lead Community Instrumentation Workshop
December
2003 January
February
March 2003: Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
April
May
June 2003: Critical Design Review (CDR)
July 2003: Modifications Start
August
September
October
November
December
2004 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October 2004: Modifications completion; Interior and exterior completion
November 2004: Interior and exterior completion continued...
December 2004: Interior and exterior completion continued...
2005 January 2005: Interior and exterior completion continued; Ground testing completion
February 2005: Flight testing and FAA STC issuance; Modified aircraft delivered to UCAR/NCAR; start of NCAR infrastructure installation and testing
March
April
May
June
July 2005: Development completed; HIAPER project ends
August
September 2005: Start of progressive science payload missions
October
November
December 2005: End of progressive science payload missions
 
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