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Wallops Flight Facility

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Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is a rocket launch site and research airport located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Established in 1945, it serves as NASA's primary location for suborbital research programs and supports science and exploration missions for various federal agencies and commercial organizations. WFF's capabilities include launching sounding rockets, small orbital rockets, high-altitude balloons, and conducting aeronautical research. It is NASA's only owned and operated launch range, supporting government and commercial needs for accessing various flight regimes.

gov civilFounded 1945
Wallops Island, Virginia, United States
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The Mission Manifest Office used strategic partners NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, and numerous industry participants for the TDO-3 and TDO-4 effort.

RelationshipsPlanValue 3.5May 10, 2021USAFA’s TDO-3 + TDO-4 Smallsats Ready For Integration Aboard USAF’s SBIRS GEO-5 Mission

A three-stage suborbital sounding rocket launched an Air Force Research Laboratory experiment from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on 2021-03-03.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Mar 4, 2021Space Force sounding rocket launches experiment to study Earth’s ionosphere

The NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft launched from Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0A on 2021-02-22 at 17:36 UTC.

PlanValue 4.0Feb 23, 2021Nanoracks launches two CubeSats on NG-15 Cygnus

The NG-15 Cygnus arrived at the ISS after launching from Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0A on 2021-02-22 at 17:36 UTC.

PlanValue 4.0Feb 22, 2021Two Smallsats Launched By Nanoracks Via The NG-15 Cygnus Mission

Rocket Lab completed Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at Wallops Flight Facility in December 2019.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.0Nov 14, 2020First Rocket Lab U.S. launch delayed to 2021

A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 solid propellant rocket launched the NROL-129 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2020-07-15 at 9:46 a.m. Eastern from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jul 15, 2020Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 launches NRO mission, its first from Virginia spaceport

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, SDL had secure communications links between its Logan, Utah headquarters and ground stations at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to support missions including Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter and Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jun 17, 2020Flying cubesats from home: Pandemic accelerates trend toward remote operations

Wallops Flight Facility hosted the launch of a Minotaur 5 rocket in September 2013 carrying NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study the lunar atmosphere and dust environment.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 15, 2020Rocket Lab wins contract to launch NASA lunar cubesat mission

The CAPSTONE launch will be the second mission to the moon launched from Wallops Flight Facility.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Feb 15, 2020Rocket Lab wins contract to launch NASA lunar cubesat mission

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft delivered AMS repair equipment to the station in a launch that occurred the day after a 2019-11-01 briefing at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

RelationshipsValue 3.5Nov 12, 2019NASA prepares for complex series of spacewalks to repair AMS

The ASLON-45 mission will be launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

PlanGeneralValue 3.6Aug 7, 2019Vector Launch awarded its first U.S. Air Force mission

Construction of Rocket Lab’s second launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is underway to support a first launch from the new pad in September 2019.

PlanGrowthValue 4.0Jan 22, 2019Rocket Lab to launch DARPA satellite

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) will be built by Rocket Lab at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

PlanCapabilityGrowthValue 4.0Oct 17, 2018Rocket Lab selects Wallops for U.S. launch site

Rocket Lab selected Cape Canaveral, Florida; Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; and Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia as four potential locations for a U.S. launch site for its Electron rocket.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jul 10, 2018Rocket Lab selects four finalists for U.S. launch site

Cape Canaveral and Wallops Flight Facility are best suited for Electron launches to low and mid-inclination orbits.

CapabilityValue 3.0Jul 10, 2018Rocket Lab selects four finalists for U.S. launch site

2020-03-01 is testing parachutes on sounding rockets, including a 2018-03-31 launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

CapabilityValue 3.6May 4, 2018Decision expected soon on adding helicopter to Mars 2020
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