Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Wallops Offers Career Inspiration to Delmarva Students

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, partners, and area employers joined forces on a mission to inspire more than 4,500 eighth-grade students seeking answers to all questions “career” at the 2024 Junior Achievement (JA) Inspire event.

Posted March 18, 2024

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics Explorers Program

GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)

Wallops Flight Facility

GUSTO Breaks NASA Scientific Balloon Record for Days in Flight

Editor’s note: This story was updated to state that the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs oversees the U.S.

Posted February 26, 2024

Astrophysics Explorers Program

GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)

Scientific Balloons

Wallops Flight Facility

GUSTO Balloon Mission Maintains Course Circling Antarctic Skies

High above the icy landscape of Earth’s southernmost continent, the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) scientific balloon mission has been afloat for more than 15 days since its launch from McMurdo, Antarctica, on Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m. EST).

Posted January 17, 2024

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

NASA Aircraft

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA’s Wallops C-130 Plays Vital Role in Successful Parachute Airdrop Test

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

NASA Wallops Signs Space Act Agreement to Support STEM Outreach

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 Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica

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 Wallops Supports Hypersonic Rocket Launches

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on Nov.

Posted November 17, 2023

Wallops Flight Facility

Sounding Rockets

NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launches

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

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Alaskan Aurora

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

NASA C-130 Makes First-Ever Flight to Antarctica for GUSTO Balloon Mission

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