Wallops Flight Facility

Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Ionosphere
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Space Weather
The Sun
Wallops Flight Facility
High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then dissipate. Now, new results from a NASA sounding rocket — a suborbital research rocket […]
Posted September 2, 2026
Scientific Balloons
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing.
Posted August 3, 2026
Wallops Flight Facility
Sounding Rockets
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the agency’s RockSatX and RockOn programs Wednesday, June 24, between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. EDT, with a backup day on Thursday, June 25.
Posted June 22, 2026
Swift Boost Mission
NASA Headquarters
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Science Mission Directorate
Wallops Flight Facility
Media are invited to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday, June 17, to view Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket, carrying a Katalyst robotic spacecraft that will attempt to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
Posted May 22, 2026
Wallops Flight Facility
Goddard Medical and Environmental Division
To facilitate discussion and information sharing on activities at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a public information session is being held 4–6 p.m., Wednesday, May 13, at the NASA Wallops Visitor Center.  During the event, NASA will have information booths on the status on the causeway bridge construction, updates on beach replenishme
Posted May 6, 2026
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported a Rocket Lab HASTE suborbital launch from the company’s Launch Complex 2 in Virginia on Feb. 27, 2026.
Posted March 5, 2026
NASA Headquarters
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Johnson Space Center
Langley Research Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
People of NASA
Stennis Space Center
Wallops Flight Facility
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NASA announced NASA Force on Wednesday, a dedicated talent track within the US Tech Force initiative designed to recruit and deploy the nation’s top engineers and technologists to support America’s space program.
Posted March 4, 2026
Wallops Flight Facility
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Technology
NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb.
Posted January 6, 2026
General
Ames Research Center
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration mission will test the performance of a new small spacecraft platform designed to expand the capabilities of current small spacecraft.
Posted December 18, 2025
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