Wallops Flight Facility

Wallops Flight Facility
The NASA Wallops Visitor Center will be open for extended hours from 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, June 12, to conduct outreach focused around NASA’s environmental work at Wallops. In addition, the Visitor Center exhibit gallery and auditorium will be open for the public to visit, and personnel will be onsite to share information on current and […]
Posted June 4, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
Langley Research Center
Sea Ice
Wallops Flight Facility
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]
Posted May 31, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
To foster growth in Maryland’s aerospace industry, the state’s Department of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NASA at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Wednesday, May 28, 2024.
Posted May 29, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
By Jessica Barnett  After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare. The low-noise cameras – built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama – are […]
Posted May 2, 2024
Goddard Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
Wallops Flight Facility
Large amounts of data collected by today’s sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small rocket and balloon suborbital mission computing and avionics systems.
Posted May 1, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
Scientific Balloons
NASA is set to begin launch operations mid-May for the 2024 Sweden Long-Duration Scientific Balloon Campaign. Four stadium-sized, scientific balloons carrying science missions and technology demonstrations are scheduled to lift off from Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange Space Center, situated north of the Arctic Circle near Kiruna, Sweden.
Posted April 30, 2024
Solar Flares
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA’s sounding rocket solar flare campaign. The first rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. local Alaska time for the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) mission that used X-ray vision to observe […]
Posted April 18, 2024
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The rocket was part of a series of three launches for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission to study the disturbances in […]
Posted April 10, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia April 8, 2024, during the solar eclipse.
Posted April 9, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
Heliophysics Division
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission are scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility launch range in Virginia. The launch window opens April 8, 2024, at 2:40 p.m.
Posted April 4, 2024
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