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NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine missions to near space. Launch operations will begin mid-December from the agency’s Long Duration Balloon camp located near the U.S.

Posted December 10, 2024

Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)

Artemis Accords

Sounding Rockets

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA, Peru Agree to Study Potential Sounding Rocket Campaign

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA and Peru’s National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) laid the groundwork for a potential multi-year scientific rocket launch campaign in the South American country.

Posted November 14, 2024

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U.S. Navy Fleet Training Launch to be Conducted at NASA Wallops

A rocket-propelled target is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window Thursday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 8 between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. EST both days as part of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed […]

Posted November 5, 2024

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NASA Wallops to Support October Sounding Rocket Launch

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the U.S. Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. EDT each day from Wednesday, Oct. 23 to Friday, Oct. 25. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch […]

Posted October 22, 2024

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NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. EDT each day from Sept. 26 to 30. No real-time launch status updates will be available and the launch will not be livestreamed. […]

Posted September 25, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

Scientific Balloons

Wallops Flight Facility

Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration

Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE launched successfully on Aug. 31.

Posted September 10, 2024

Learning Resources

Scientific Balloons

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Scientific Balloon Takes Flight With Student-Built Payloads

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student Platform) mission remained in flight over 11 hours before it safely touched down. Recovery is underway.

Posted September 6, 2024

Astrophysics

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Infrared Light

Scientific Balloons

The Universe

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA’s EXCITE Mission Prepared for Scientific Balloon Flight

Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space. EXCITE is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during circumpolar long-duration scientific balloon flights.

Posted August 22, 2024

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Update on NASA Wallops Aircraft and Airfield Operations

The NASA Aircraft Management Advisory Board (AMAB), which manages the agency’s aircraft fleet, has decided to relocate the agency’s P-3 aircraft at Wallops to Langley Research Center.

Posted August 22, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Wallops Flight Facility

A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

By Jessica Barnett From Earth, one might be tempted to view the Sun as a unique celestial object like no other, as it’s the star our home planet orbits and the one our planet relies on most for heat and light. But if you took a step back and compared the Sun to the other […]

Posted August 9, 2024