RF04 went pretty well, without any major dropsonde issues. While loading sondes, there was one sonde that failed to recondition.
During the flight, all of the sondes seemed to perform well. There was one that got stuck in the launch tube, which had to be retrieved. Upon reloading everything worked well. This has now happened a couple times, and should definitely be looked at by DFS after the project to see if there’s a solution.
The sea container arrived on Tuesday, so now the NAS is fully setup. This means the data flow is finally as planned. All of the raw data from the first four flights has been uploaded to the NAS and thus /scr and FTP as well.
Now NOAA has arrived to fly with us, and with them came sondes! The air shipment also finally arrived this afternoon, so we’ve got those sondes as well.