Altair

The unmanned Altair aircraft built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will be used in the NASA and U.S. Forest Service's joint mission to test a new wildfire mapping and imagery system. The plane is equipped with NASA's image-sensing system, the AMS (Autonomous Modular System)-Wildfire.

August 28, 2006 5:51 PM PDT

Photo by: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

 

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