NASA Plane Heading Back to Afghanistan

Nicknamed "Spooky Plane"

At the end of last year, we reported about the return of a NASA WB-57 Canberra from operations in Afghanistan, where the civil-registered plane act as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN).

BACN is technological "gateway" system that, acting as a sort-of middleware, interconnects different radio systems and datalinks and makes them able to transfer information and communicate.