Wallops Flight Facility

NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base period and up to five options with a potential contract value of approximately $265 million if all options are exercised.

Posted June 18, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.

Posted June 14, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

For Colleges & Universities

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics Division

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments

More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket Thursday, June 20, with a launch window that opens at 5:30 a.m. EDT. An […]

Posted June 14, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Wallops Visitor Center Extended Hours June 12

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

NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes

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

NASA Goddard, Maryland Sign Memo to Boost State’s Aerospace Sector

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

Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares

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

Big Science Drives Wallops’ Upgrades for NASA Suborbital Missions

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 Balloons Head North of Arctic Circle for Long-Duration Flights

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 NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare

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