Wallops Flight Facility

Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
NASA Aircraft
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s C-130 Hercules, managed at Wallops Flight Facility’s Aircraft Office in Virginia, provided aerial delivery support for a successful commercial crew parachute airdrop test Jan. 9 at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
Posted January 12, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
Earlier this year, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility reaffirmed a 25-year relationship with the Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA) through the signing of a new Space Act Agreement. This formal partnership provides outreach opportunities for youth, including a residential space adventure camp each summer.
Posted December 28, 2023
Scientific Balloons
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA kicks off its annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign around Dec. 1, which includes three scientific balloon flights planned for launch from the long-duration balloon (LDB) Camp near McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Posted November 27, 2023
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on Nov.
Posted November 17, 2023
Wallops Flight Facility
Sounding Rockets
Two sounding rockets are scheduled to launch for the Department of Defense from NASA’s launch range at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch window is Nov. 15-17, 2023. No launch times will be provided. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launches will not be livestreamed. The rocket launches are expected to […]
Posted November 14, 2023
Auroras
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Sounding Rockets
Wallops Flight Facility
A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's DISSIPATION mission.
Posted November 8, 2023
Wallops Flight Facility
Aeronautics
NASA Aircraft
Scientific Balloons
On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA’s C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO).
Posted October 30, 2023
Wallops Flight Facility
On Sept. 30, 2023, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility marked the formal conclusion of the Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Small Satellite (SmallSat) Tracking Operations in Wallops Island, Virginia, placing its workhorse, 60-plus-year-old, 18-meter antenna system in low-level maintenance status.
Posted October 25, 2023
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