Wallops Flight Facility

NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb.

Posted January 6, 2026

General

Ames Research Center

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration mission will test the performance of a new small spacecraft platform designed to expand the capabilities of current small spacecraft.

Posted December 18, 2025

Air Quality

Airborne Science

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Aircraft Coordinate Science Flights to Measure Air Quality

Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and several other university and government partners and collaborators.

Posted September 24, 2025

Airborne Science

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Flights in Mid-Atlantic, California

From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley in California.

Posted June 20, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Ionosphere

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

The Solar System

The Sun

Uncategorized

Wallops Flight Facility

Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics

NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds

NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13.

Posted June 12, 2025

Wallops Flight Facility

A Fond Farewell: NASA’s C-130 Begins New Mission in California

NASA’s C-130 Hercules, fondly known as the Herc, went wheels up at 9:45 a.m., Friday, April 18, as it departed from its decade-long home at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, for the final time. The aircraft is embarking on a new adventure to serve and protect in the state of California where it is […]

Posted April 18, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Uncategorized

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere. The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere.

Posted March 21, 2025

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Super Pressure Balloons Return to New Zealand for Test Flights

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency’s super pressure balloon technology.

Posted March 14, 2025

Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS)

Earth Science

Planetary Science Division

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

SmallSats Program

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation

NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather.

Posted March 4, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of Goddard

Wallops Flight Facility

Keith Koehler: Listening and Leading as Wallops’ News Chief

Name: Keith Koehler Title: News Chief Formal Job Classification: Public Affairs Specialist Organization: Office of Communications, Wallops Flight Facility, Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 130.4) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025